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NWDA cuts - true cost to the region revealed as more than 100 projects lose out

The Northwest Regional Development agency has confirmed more than 100 projects will lose out after the ConDem Government cut £52m from its budget. The announcement is a massive blow to regeneration plans across the region.

The £220m Talbot Gateway plan in Blackpool, the Skelmersdale College Campus Renewal, Chester Zoo’s £225m Natural Vision project, the new £28m Everyman theatre in Liverpool and the International Festival in Manchester are just some of the projects that were expecting to secure funding support and will now miss out.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg admitted some RDAs ‘do a good job’ when he was challenged by North West MP Gordon Marsden during Deputy PMQs in the House of Commons today (Tuesday, July 27).

Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden, Labour’s shadow communities and local government spokesman, said:

"The Deputy Prime Minister talks a good talk about devolution and localism but that’s about all he does because he and the business secretary acquiesced in the abolition of the Regional Development Agencies.

"Will he actually now give an undertaking to the House that he will intervene with his colleagues in government to make sure that the new regional growth fund decisions have a proper input from elected councils and local authorities?"

£270m has immediately been taken from regional development agencies across the country; the £52m cuts to the NWDA makes it one of the hardest hit.

Earlier this summer the ConDems budget set out plans to scrap the NWDA. The Agency will not be able to make any new investments or renew partner contracts before its dissolution in April 2012.

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The North West projects that have approached NWDA for possible funding but will not receive anything:

The NWDA says this is not an exhaustive list but includes the majority of projects that had secured at least concept stage and were likely to request agency funding within the next 18 months....

Media Sector Development Plan - Audio Visual Skills 2001/12

Manchester Metropolitan University - Birley Fields Education & Health Campus

All Souls Church Restoration, Bolton

Preston Guild 2012

English Half Marathon

World Series Netball

Manchester International Festival

Midpoint 18 Employment Site Development, Middlewich

Parklands Plot 5B, Middlebrook,Bolton

Talbot Gateway, Blackpool

Burnley Bridge Business Park

The Corridor Manchester Public Realm

The Dispensary, New Islington, Manchester

The Manchester Sq, Waterloo and St Chads Headlands, Blackpool

Kingston House, Liverpool - Planning Fees

Leyland Trucks Training Programme

Chester Zoo Natural Vision

Crewe Rail Gateway - Main Project

Ancoats Estate Management Company

Crewe Green/Basford Link Road - Main Project

Preston Vision: Winckley Square Public Realm

Whitefield Economic Development Programme

CBC Aintree

Getrag Training Project, Halewood

MakeMedia Centre

Manchester Ship Canal Aeration (Salford Quays)

Trafford Park Masterplan

Parsonage Colliery Phase 1

Royal Eye Hospital, Manchester - Enabling Works

Next Generation Access Broadband Manchester

Citadel - Court Square,Carlise

Roman Maryport

Lancaster Science Park

Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, Liverpool

Liverpool Science Park Innovation Centre 3

National Football Museum , URBIS

Blackburn TC Knowledge Zone - Cathedral Quarter

Sportscity Major Destination Site

West Float Land Remediation - Wirral

Trafford Wharf land remediation

Preston Vision: Flag Market Public Realm

Riverside Park 2b - Wirral

The Liverpool Institute of Vaccine Research (LIVR)

Regional Aero Park - Samlesbury - Phase II

BAE Submarine Solutions Training Programme

Blackpool - Central Corridor Phase III

Horwich Loco Works (remediation)

Church Wharf, Bolton

Manchester - Burnley - Accrington direct rail link

Carlisle Historic Core Public Realm

Process Innogateway 2

Town Wharf, Middlewich

Crewe Vision Partnership contribution to costs

Frodsham Gateway

Faithful Enterprise

Cibitas - Chester review

Lake District National Park Authority - Employment Sites Programme

Lake District Electric Vehicle demonstration

Environmental Technologies Business Park

Solid State Lighting Demonstration

St Annes public realm - Open Golf 2012

Gen-Probe UK Consolidation at Wythenshawe

Aviation Power Up

Climate Change Action Plan Northwest Climate Fund Phase 2

Jaguar Land Rover Training Project

Leyland Trucks Hybrid Demonstration

Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Arts Project

Manchester is my Planet Phase 3

Incubation National Nuclear Lab

NW Autonomous Systems Programme - Innovation

Centre of Excellence for low carbon vehicles technologies

Mersey Tidal Test Centre

Preston Vision: Innovation Trail

Royal Institute for British Architects Second National HQ

Rossendale Vocational Training Centre

Rawtenstall Town Centre Public Realm

Haslingden Public Realm

Skelmersdale College Campus Renewal

Co-op Office Development Skemersdale

Stobart Air

Thomas Storey Stockport

Stalybridge West

Trinity Mirror Transformation Project

Wirral HE Campus

University of Chester - County Hall refurbishment

Chester University Food Research & Development

Cumbria Higher Learning

Sands Centre, Carlisle

Centre for Genomics Research

NW Clinical Fellowships Industry Programme

Strategic Affordable Manufacturing in the UK Leading Environmental Technology

Smart Grid Centre of Excellence

Nuclear Fuel Applied Research Centre

Warrington Bank Quay Station Business Lounge & Subway

Nuclear Low Carbon Economic Area

Wigan On Side Centre, Mesnes Park

Turnpike Centre, Leigh

Fleetwood Fish Park

Centre for Exploitation of Energy Research

City Centre North - the Co-operative Quarter

NW Autonomous Systems Programme - Regional Sectors Project