More funding allocated to Energising Blyth regeneration project

Published date05 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
The money, which will be taken from the existing Energising Blyth acquisitions project budget within the capital programme, will be spent on more sites in the town centre. However, the exact sites are currently confidential for commercial reasons. Energising Blyth is the council's £90m flagship regeneration project to transform the county's largest town

Among the schemes delivered by the project is the new high-tech training centre at the Energy Central Campus, with the council acquiring the Keel Row shopping centre to use as a site for the second phase of the campus, the Energy Central

Institute. Keel Row closed its doors for good on February 29 ahead of the major redevelopment.

At the time, the council also acquired the Keel Row Car Park and a vacant property at 7-9 Bridge Street from Northumberland Estates, the Duke of Northumberland's property company. Speaking at Tuesday's meeting of the council's...

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