Update on ‘stalled’ £20M fund to remodel Bolton town centre

The £20M was granted as part of the last Conservative government’s “levelling up” fund to be used for projects like redeveloping Bolton town hall and building a hotel on Le Mans Crescent.

But this had not been signed off before July’s election, while the newly elected Labour government says it hopes to replace the levelling up bidding process entirely.

Bolton Conservative leader Cllr Martyn Cox said: “Bolton has been…