Councils have called for the remaining £1bn in the Levelling Up Fund to be ‘allocated on the basis of robust evidence and local need’.
It comes amid mounting criticism of ‘resource intensive and costly’ competitive bidding from the Centre for Cities think-tank and MPs on the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee.
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