Gedling and Sherwood MPs Tom Randall and Mark Spencer have vowed to play their part in “levelling up” their areas of Gedling borough as part of the Chancellor’s latest Spending Review.
The MPs’ pledge comes in response to a letter sent over the weekend by Gedling Borough Council leaders to Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
In the letter, councillors John Clarke and Michael Payne called the chancellor not to overlook the borough when allocating money from his new £4bn local ‘Levelling Up’ Fund.
The government fund has been set up to provide cash to local areas which councils can then use for infrastructure improvements.
The council leaders also sent the letter to their local MPs and called for their support.
Two of the MPs representing parts of the borough, Tom Randall and Mark Spencer, today sent a letter of response to the council and committed to support any bid for cash.
In the letter they wrote: “As you will be aware, the list of allocations for the Towns Fund were finalised in September 2019 before Tom was Gedling’s Member of Parliament and while we share your disappointment that Gedling Borough Council’s bid was not successful on this occasion, we look forward to working with the Council in securing funding from additional schemes to improve Gedling Borough.
“Across the Sherwood Constituency, Mark has been working with another Council on grouping 3 larger villages together to bid for money to be shared appropriately.
“We would like to point out that to date we have not been asked by the Council to support and help any bids across the Borough of Gedling.
“We both look forward to working with the Council, residents ofGedling Borough and the Government to secure investment from the Levelling Up Fund into local projects that will improve the Borough.
“We also look forward to hearing from you if you require any letters of support, help and assistance or joint visits to support any town or village within the Borough of Gedling.”
In the letter the council listed a number of projects they want financial support for including a Fourth Trent Crossing and regeneration of Arnold town centre.
The council should stop wasting money on stupid schemes like Arnold market shops when there is already lots of empty shops in Arnold . It doesn’t matter how much money councils get they will always want more it’s time they got real and learned to manage budget instead of ripping off the public with the diabolical council tax waste like police commisioner a brick around the chief constables neck