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BBC News
03-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Vote due on Barrow's 'once-in-a-lifetime' regeneration chance
Councillors are set to vote on whether to back a more ambitious town centre regeneration plan described as a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity.A total of £17.5m in funding was secured for Barrow, in Cumbria, by the now defunct Barrow Borough Council in 2021 with work on several schemes under a further £200m is now available through a partnership between Westmorland and Furness Council, the government and nuclear submarine builder BAE Systems, which employs more than 14,500 people in the area.A report will go before the local authority's cabinet later. Projects being paid for with the original pot of funding include asbestos removal in the Market Hall and demolition on Dalton Road, Stephen Street and The Ginnel to make way for a public park and other new features. 'Concept stage' But the three-pronged partnership, formed last year and known as Team Barrow, says it has access to greater funding which would be spread across 10 money would be used to build houses, improve transport links and develop education and skills Team Barrow board has recommended work on the existing schemes is halted to allow for further investigation into what is described as a far greater re-modelling of the town centre than currently report to be discussed by cabinet members says the alternative plan "remains at early concept stage" but is a "once-in-a-lifetime" adds: "It aims to unlock private sector investment and to future-proof the town centre for its population, beyond a traditional physical regeneration scheme."This could include a new or improved theatre and events space, further utilising the Town Hall, creating a better food and drink offer alongside leisure and market facilities that boosts current investment in Portland Walk from BAE Systems, as well as new accommodation and community and health facilities.'' Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
08-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
More than 40% of Barrow-in-Furness recycling not recycled
A significant proportion of a town's recycling was sent to landfill or incinerated, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has figures for April 2023 to March 2024 show 41.5% of the kerbside collections for residents in the former Barrow Borough Council area were rejected for being unsuitable or compares with 2.7% the former South Lakeland area and 3.1% for the former Eden and Furness Council Liberal Democrat cabinet member Giles Archibald said recycling rates in the Barrow locality were "not where they should be" and work was being carried out to make services more effective and efficient. The FOI by the Local Democracy Reporting Service showed 721,716 stone (4,583,110 kg) of waste put out for recycling by Barrow residents was collected but 299,227 stone (1,900,180 kg) was rejected and sent to landfill or Borough Council moved its waste services in-house in October 2022 after it was previously provided by an external contractor. 'Avoiding contamination' Local government reorganisation in April 2023 then saw Westmorland and Furness Council take over responsibility for services provided by the authority, along with those of Eden District Council, South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County a council meeting in January, Conservative group deputy leader Matt Brereton asked when the administration was going to get "its act together" with waste said work was being done to "harmonise waste and recycling services" and make them more efficient."We recognise that recycling rates in the Barrow locality are not where they should be," he council needed to educate residents about the importance of minimising waste and help them "better understand which items could be recycled so that only these items are placed in the recycling box and bin, avoiding contamination which reduces recycling", he said. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Send your story ideas here
