The bidding process for government Levelling-Up cash to support Morecambe’s planned new Eden North attraction has been pushed-back amid this week’s mass departures of MPs from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration.
A deadline for Lancaster City Council to submit a Levelling-Up bid was this week and the council was all-set to apply. However, the deadline coincided with the shock sacking of government Levelling-Up minister Michael Gove MP, who held Eden North talks earlier this year, the mass resignations of other government MPs and Boris Johnson’s resignation as Conservative Party leader – but not as Prime Minister.
Speaking this week, Green Coun Caroline Jackson, leader of Lancaster City Council, said: “The Levelling-Up bid deadline was this week, just as all the developments were happening with Boris Johnson. Our bid was complete and ready to be submitted. But an on-line portal to submit the bid application was not up and the process was put back two weeks.”
Earlier this year, Mr Gove produced a Levelling-Up white paper about regional issues, including English devolution deals. As part of that paper, a Lancashire devolution plan put forward by local councils for a ‘county deal’ without creating a new combined Lancashire authority or a new directly-elected regional mayor was given a cool response from the government.
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