Where is Gloucester’s missing £11 million of Levelling Up cash?
In November 2023 headlines shouted about Gloucester landing a second lump of Levelling Up Fund cash - £11.5 million to transform its Greyfriars quarter. Where is that money?
Dear Readers,
Welcome to Monday’s edition of The Raikes Journal.
This will be our last planned edition until after the August Bank Holiday weekend, so we’re keeping it short and sweet today.
At the end of last week we took a look at what the University of Gloucestershire’s decision to sell one of its Cheltenham campuses might say about where the university and the sector it’s in.
We think it speaks volumes, and while it shows the kind of pressure the university sector is under, it also shows an insitution moving its feet to reposition itself and its business. You can read that here.
But today we take a look at a project that got rather overshadowed in Gloucester alongside the other exciting developments that have been taking place of late. This is the £11 million of Levelling Up Fund cash the city council won to build a cultural quarter in the Greyfriars area of the city.
The scheme was exciting and promised to have a dominoe effect on a number of other projects long in the in-tray of the c…
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