Levelling Up Partnership
Mansfield has been confirmed as the third area to benefit from a major £400 million bespoke regeneration programme which forms a key part of the government’s levelling up agenda in England.
The area will receive £20 million to improve the town centre and its connectivity, support residents in the most deprived areas access vital services and help divert young people from crime and anti-social behaviour, and ensure the town is best prepared to benefit from future investment.
The investment is made up of:
- £7.4m to remodel the Bellamy and Oak Tree estates and improve housing quality and access to services
- £5m to Mansfield Connect as an exemplar low carbon construction project and for hands-on skills training for retrofit and modern methods of construction in partnership with Vision West Nottinghamshire College and Nottingham Trent University
- £3.2m for a youth centre on the Bellamy estate to help divert young people from crime and anti-social behaviour.
- £2m for streetscaping and public realm improvements in the centre of Mansfield to make the town centre more appealing.
- £2m for improvements to Sainsbury’s junction, a local traffic pinch-point affecting connectivity into the town centre.
- £300,000 for the refurbishment of South Mansfield Family Hubs to make them more appropriate for family and youth support.
- £250,000 for a school readiness pilot run by Nottingham Trent University in some of Mansfield’s most deprived neighbourhoods
- £250,000 of capacity funding for Mansfield District Council to identity its unique economic and cultural opportunities in preparation for the establishment of the new devolution deal in the East Midlands.
Mansfield District Council and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) have worked closely together as strategic partners to identify projects most in need and will continue to work together to deliver the much-needed improvements.
Mansfield is one of 20 areas which will receive tailored support through Levelling Up Partnerships announced in the Spring Budget 2023 and focused on areas most in need of levelling up in England. It follows the announcement last year that Hull and Sandwell have been confirmed as the first two areas to receive the bespoke support. At the Autumn Statement, the Government announced the extension of Levelling Up Partnerships to Scotland.
The Government has begun working with all areas due to form part of a Levelling Up Partnership in England and will update with details of regeneration packages over the next 18 months.