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Manchester council has made a £80m promise to give residents in four areas of the city something they are ‘crying out for’.
Town hall bosses were buoyed by the government’s decision to award four neighbourhoods £20 million each to improve the area.
Benchill South & Wythenshawe Central, Harpurhey South & Monsall, Clayton Vale, and Gorton South are the neighbourhoods set to benefit over the next decade.
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Now, councillors across the political spectrum in Manchester have pledged ‘every pound of this funding will be guided by the voices of local residents’
“[It will] not be imposed on local community, but built with them,” Labour Coun John Hughes added.
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