“We are already delivering positive change most notably through our wholly owned private housing vehicle, My Blackpool Home. This company, backed by £70m of council borrowing, has already created over 500 quality affordable homes out of failed private sector property in inner Blackpool, enabling individuals and families to put down roots and stabilise lives. However, a far greater scale of intervention is now needed to create the housing offer that will lead to a more stable, balanced community. This is why we are pleased that government and Homes England are now partnering with us, and planning to support the delivery of the transformation required. “A particular for our Round 2 levelling up submission will be investment in the education infrastructure that will equip residents to take the opportunities that our coming in our local economy. As part of this, we want to bring our local higher education offer right into the town centre - via a new Multiversity campus - so that our young people can see that technical and higher skills are for them, with good local job opportunities following on from that training’. “Detailed work is now taking place using external expertise where relevant to ensure that Blackpool puts itself into the strongest possible position to secure a Levelling Up Fund Round 2 bid. We want to ensure that the opportunities of being one of the places selected for transformational regeneration and from the Shared Prosperity Fund are utilised to achieve the council’s strategic regeneration objective. Our approach on this, with our partners is innovative and exciting and we are hopeful we will be able to share more detail with the people of Blackpool soon”