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South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to South Lakeland District Council and the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Park asking them to bid for part of a £10 million fund for Cumbria The funds are part of a scheme from the Communities and Local Government Department. The government wants to create the conditions for sustainable growth across the North West region. As such, a competitive call for capital projects under Priority 3 of the North West Operational Programme was launched on this week. Tim wants to ensure that there is a site in the South Lakes.
A budget of £10 million from Priority 3 is available to invest in capital projects through this call for two strands of activity:
Strand One - Promoting clean and sustainable urban transport
Strand Two - Investment in key strategic sites
Campaigns led by the MP , £2.75million of Government funding have already been secured for Gilkes, which will unlock a further £70million of private funding; and an incredible £0.5billion of funding has been announced by GlaxoSmithKline to build its first new manufacturing facility in the UK in almost 40 years, a new biopharmaceutical plant in Ulverston.
He said: “I've written to South Lakeland District Council and the two National Parks asking them to bid for these funds. In my letter I promised them that I will do everything I possibly can to back their bids.
'Bidding for these funds is another important step forward in our campaign to make the South Lakes the economic hub of Cumbria.”