On the Level – Not.

England’s market squares are going to enjoy a boom time, if all the money that is promised in the government’s levelling up funds are spent as promised. Many local councils offered a share in the largesse are spending at least some of the cash on revamping markets, doing up public squares and refurbishing shopping centres.

At the moment the money is coming from two funds – the Towns Fund and Future High Streets Fund. There was a lot of publicity ballyhoo about both of them,  strangely, just before the General Election December 2019.  But Boris Johnson was no doubt hoping that people had forgotten Theresa May’s Stronger Towns Fund.  Remember that?