Investment and regeneration is delivering change across the borough

Across Bury, plans are becoming places. Ambitious regeneration projects are gathering pace, transforming town centres and creating opportunities for communities and businesses alike.

A new town centre hub is nearing completion in Radcliffe, regeneration is gathering pace in Prestwich, and investment is flowing into town centres across the borough.

New opportunities for businesses are being created, and long-vacant sites are moving closer to redevelopment - improving the places we live, work, and visit across Bury.

Across the borough projects that once existed only on plans, drawings and consultation boards are increasingly becoming things people can see, use, and feel the benefit from.

A series of decisions approved by Bury Council’s Cabinet over the past two weeks (Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 8 July) mark the latest milestones in one of the largest programmes of investment in Greater Manchester, which is helping transform communities, create opportunities, and lay the foundations for future growth across the borough.

The latest developments include progress on Bury's Local Plan and Housing Strategy, additional investment to support completion of Prestwich's new Travel Hub, funding for town centre regeneration and business growth projects, continuing development of Radcliffe’s Enterprise Centre, and approval of works to prepare Pyramid Park for future development.

Together, they form part of a wider ambition to create great places to live, work, learn and invest, while ensuring local people benefit from the opportunities being created.

Councillor Eamonn O'Brien, Leader of Bury Council, said: “People rightly want to know what difference investment is making in their communities.

“Across the borough, we're increasingly seeing the answer to that question. Whether it's improving our town centres, creating new employment opportunities, bringing brownfield land back into use, supporting businesses or planning for the homes and infrastructure future generations will need, we're seeing years of work become visible.

“There is still a great deal more to do, but communities across Bury are now starting to see the kind of progress that can make a real difference to people's lives.”

Among the projects progressing at pace is the Prestwich Travel Hub, which is expected to be completed this year and forms a major part of the wider regeneration plans for the village centre.

Investment in Radcliffe is continuing to support transformation of the town centre, including the development of the Enterprise Centre and the completion of the new Hub.

Elsewhere, work at Pyramid Park will prepare a prominent brownfield site for future redevelopment, bringing land that has stood vacant for many years back into productive use.

The physical regeneration is complemented by almost £1.8m of economic development and regeneration funding supporting projects designed to strengthen local businesses, improve town centres, support cultural activity and create new opportunities for residents.

Councillor Charlotte Morris, Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth, said: “Bury is proving that ambition and delivery can go hand in hand. We're thinking big and attracting the investment to match.

"And these projects will make a real difference for residents. We're creating town centres people want to spend time in, bringing brownfield land back into use for new homes, attracting businesses and jobs, and building places where people choose to live, work and invest. Across the borough, plans are becoming visible change, and that's helping strengthen our local economy for the future"

The projects are part of a wider story of progress in Bury, which has also seen independent recognition for improvements in adult social care, and services for children and young people despite significant financial and demand pressures.

Read the reports here:

Bury Local Plan (Regulation 19), Approval to Undertake Public Consultation on a Draft Housing Strategy for Bury and here: Prestwich Village Regeneration Project: Delivery of Phase 1A (Travel Hub) - Additional Funding Request, Economic Development & Regeneration Grant Funding, Pyramid Park - Remediation Main Works Contract.