{"id":487018,"date":"2026-03-21T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487018\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:08:14","slug":"towns-to-get-20m-in-new-government-pride-in-place-funding-boosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/487018\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns to get \u00a320m in new government Pride in Place funding boosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millie Earl, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council&#8217;s leader, said the announcement was &#8220;good news for our communities&#8221;, which she said have been overlooked &#8220;for too long&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she said cuts to some grant funding earlier this year mean it must &#8220;continue to call on government to provide sustainable funding for services and improvements,&#8221; Earl added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Council tax bills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c24drnznzdvo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will rise by 6.74% in the BCP area from next month<\/a> after \u00a314m of cuts were approved by councillors in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Alex Baker, MP for Aldershot and Farnborough, said the money for Cherrywood will be &#8220;transformational&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through this funding we&#8217;re bring investment to those who need it and putting power back in the hands of local people,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millie Earl, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council&#8217;s leader, said the announcement was &#8220;good news for our communities&#8221;,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-487018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}