Key meeting to secure funds to improve Calderdale train station and flood defences

A £7.044 million scheme package of improvements at Todmorden, Menston and Pontefract Monkhill rail stations, including new lifts and a replacement footbridge at two of the stations, and a £1 million package of improvements for the travel centres at Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds bus stations are also on the agenda.

Members will be asked to approve the release of a further £2 million towards the £41 million Mytholmroyd Flood Alleviation Scheme to improve flood walls and barriers, as well as widen the river, helping protect more homes and businesses.

This scheme is being funded through the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP), delivered in partnership with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, through the Leeds City Region Growth Deal - a £1 billion package of Government investment to accelerate growth and create jobs across Leeds City Region.

A total of £4.5 million of accelerated schemes to help boost economic recovery to go before West Yorkshire Combined Authority Investment Committee

More than £4.5 million of schemes, which have been accelerated to help boost the economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic, are among the items to be considered by members of the West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Investment Committee.

Members will be asked to approve two “Warm Homes” schemes, which will help address fuel poverty through energy efficiency measures, and a high-speed broadband voucher scheme at the next committee meeting on Wednesday December 2

These are the first schemes to be delivered through the Government’s Getting Building Fund, through which the Combined Authority secured £52.6 million earlier this year to accelerate 15 “shovel-ready” projects in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, helping create nearly 2,300 new jobs and safeguard a further 500 jobs.