{"id":5023950,"date":"2019-06-17T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=5023950"},"modified":"2023-11-06T17:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T16:46:29","slug":"englands-infrastructure-gets-a-boost-from-142-million-government-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/news\/englands-infrastructure-gets-a-boost-from-142-million-government-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s infrastructure gets a boost from \u00a3142 million Government funding\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Housing Minister\u00a0<\/span>and MP\u00a0<\/span>Kit Malthouse\u00a0<\/span>has announced that the Government will be investing \u00a3142 million across England with the intention of building new homes and improving and upgrading roads and utility services.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Woking and Truro will receive millions\u00a0<\/span><\/b>for new housing and roads<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Both the South East and the South West are to benefit from this seasonal windfall<\/span>, having been assessed under a competitive funding allocation process<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this latest release of funding,\u00a0<\/span>Surrey<\/span>\u00a0county council<\/span>\u2019s commuter t<\/span>own of Woking will received \u00a395 million worth of government finance to create a viable infrastructure to support\u00a0<\/span>the purchase of suitable land to build\u00a0<\/span>4,500 new homes<\/span>\u00a0and alleviate local congestion<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This will include widening Woking\u2019s Victoria\u00a0<\/span>Arch\u00a0<\/span>bridge<\/span>, improving the surrounding road network, land acquisition and installing mains services and providing\u00a0<\/span>utilities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Truro in Cornwall will receive \u00a347 million<\/span><\/b>\u00a0to improve road links<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The creation of a new northern access road<\/span>\u00a0linking the employment centre in the east and the Royal Cornwall hospital with sites in the west from the A390, will allow for the\u00a0<\/span>construction of 4,000 new homes<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kit Malthouse said: \u201cThis<\/span>\u00a0new funding is part of the\u00a0<\/span>government\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>drive to hit its target of building 300,000 new homes a year in England by the mid 2020<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We are\u00a0<\/span>pushing<\/span>\u00a0to create homes, opportunities and thriving communities. We need to keep upping our game and build more, better, faster, if we are to meet our ambition. The funding comes from the Government\u2019s \u00a35.5 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund so that land can be made ready for development<\/span>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Housing Minister\u00a0and MP\u00a0Kit Malthouse\u00a0has announced that the Government will be investing \u00a3142 million across England with the intention of building new homes and improving and upgrading roads and utility services.\u00a0 Woking and Truro will receive millions\u00a0for new housing and roads\u00a0 Both the South East and the South West are to benefit from this seasonal windfall,… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":5023970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[231,188],"class_list":["post-5023950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regeneration","category-uk-housing-market","tag-england","tag-infrastructure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5023950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097657,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5023950\/revisions\/6097657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5023950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5023950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5023950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}