A Valentine’s Day ‘tiff’, £20m and a major development now at risk

Public finger-pointing - a result of the pressure to deliver a major Gloucestershire redevelopment - has highlighted how the project could miss out £20 million of vital funding and fall flat.

Dear reader,

We hope you had a great weekend.

We also hope you enjoyed last week’s stories, especially the one that announced our first birthday and rising readership for our thrice-weekly email editions.

In among the detail was news that The Raikes Journal is now approved by the BBC to use the stories of its local government reporting service. We’ve done that today with two tales published in full on our website, but linked below.

Today we take a look at the story some rushed to publish last week about a Gloucestershire housing developer pointing the finger at a county local authority, suggesting it would be its fault if it missed a deadline for a vital £20 million of funding to make its development happen.

Something didn’t sit right with us here, so we decided to do what Raikes does, and try and understand it a little better so you are better informed. At least that’s what we tried to do.

You can make your own minds up if we managed it!

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