Towns Fund

Residents and businesses in Castleford are being invited to have their say on shaping the future of the town, helping to unlock £20m of funding.

£20m government cash set aside for Castleford

The old entrance to Wakefield Westgate Station, which has laid vacant for nearly ten years.

Developers to submit bids to build new 120-bed Wakefield city centre hotel

The former ABC cinema has been demolished and the site cleared in preparation for city centre housing.

'Positive interest' from developers hoping to build new homes on ABC site

The site of the former Westgate station

Council buys former railway station to make way for hotel and offices

Illustration shows how the Cathedral Quarter is to be transformed.

£48m project offers ‘once in a lifetime’ chance for Wakefield and Castleford

A project has been launched by Wakefield Council to transform Sagar Street in Castleford

Castleford to get its own boho quarter in latest redevelopment plans

The canal at Knottingley

“All the government’s talk about levelling up is meaningless if it doesn’t inclu...

looking ahead: Councillors Byford, Jeffery and Margaret Isherwood on Kirkgate.

Kirkgate revamp work gets underway

Pontefract town centre

Pontefract and Castleford Express town centre survey 2021: What needs to change ...

Wakefield Council is encouraging primary school children in Castleford to have their say on shaping the future of the town.

Castleford school children asked for their views on re-imagining their town

Wakefield city centre

One year of Covid: These are some of the plans in place to secure Wakefield's re...

Council leader Denise Jeffery, Coun Richard Forster and Lorna Malkin from Queens Mill, and Yvette Cooper on Millennium Bridge

'It is exciting that we have an opportunity to make Castleford even better' - Ex...

An aerial view of Wakefield Cathedral and the city centre

These are the £25 million plans to change the old Wakefield Westgate railway sta...

Yvette Cooper, council leader Denise Jeffery, Coun Richard Forster and Lorna Malkin from Queens Mill

A £24 million grant to improve Castleford town centre and riverside has been app...

The former crown court on Wood Street. The street is set to be redeveloped.

New neighbourhoods to be built in Wakefield to encourage city centre living

Plans are in place for the regeneration of Wakefield city centre

Wakefield Council has bid for share of £3.6 billion government fund to help boos...
Wakefield Council is looking to use a share of a government fund for towns and cities to help the district's recovery.
James Carney

Almost 40,000 retail jobs lost in England in five years before coronavirus crisi...

Dewsbury town centre is one of the Yorkshire areas set to benefit from the Government's Town Fund. Picture: Jim Fitton.

MPs highlight claims of 'political bias' in Government's £3.6 billion Towns Fund

cash injection: Castleford is on course to receive much-needed money.

Castleford to get a share of £3.6billion funding boost

Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire, one of the areas set to benefit from the Towns Fund.

Towns Fund deals worth up to £25m for 16 Yorkshire areas to be signed by winter

‘Fair deal for our town and for older pensioners,’ writes Yvette Cooper MP

Yvette Cooper

Yvette Cooper says government is 'playing political games' by leaving Knottingle...

Wakefield Town Hall

Council handed £1.7 million cash grant to kickstart schemes to improve transport...

18 August 2017...... Bridge over the River Aire in Castleford.
Castleford clinched the rugby league title for the first time in their history. Picture Tony Johnson.

Share your views on how Castleford could use share of £3.6 billion Towns Fund

Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford MP Yvette Cooper. Photo: JPI Media

'They still don't get it' - Yvette Cooper slams Government Towns Fund as it was ...

Wakefield and Castleford have been listed as one of the UK's towns and cities to receive a share of an 16.4m of governement funding to help regenerate the city, boost businesses and improve infrastructure.

Wakefield and Castleford to get share of multi-million pound deal to regenerate ...

Both Wakefield and Castleford are among 100 places being invited to bid for a share of a 3.6bn funding pot announced by the Government today.

Wakefield and Castleford among 100 places invited to bid for a share of a £3.6bn...
Both Wakefield and Castleford are among 100 places being invited to bid for a share of a £3.6bn funding pot announced by the Government today.
Georgina Morris

Wakefield Council leader Peter Box joined a chorus of critics who've attacked the fund.

Stronger Towns Fund cash 'derisory', council leader says