Meon Valley MP to bid for funding to redevelop Waterlooville town centre

As part of chancellor Rishi Sunak’s spending statement to Parliament he unveiled the levelling up fund designed to upgrade local infrastructure across the UK.

The MP will now work with local stakeholders including Havant Borough Council to formulate a bid to go before ministers.

Mrs Drummond said: ‘I am very pleased this has been announced because what is needed in Waterlooville is exactly what the chancellor said when he described the fund as building ‘the infrastructure of everyday life’.

‘Local people have made clear to me they want better facilities in Waterlooville, which is tired and in need of an overhaul.

‘This fund is about those facilities like transport improvements, better shopping streets and improved service like libraries and GP surgeries and I will be working in partnership with the council, local groups and the Solent LEP to make this the best bid it can be.’

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The MP also praised the government for committing to increase the pay of NHS staff.

However other MPs across the region have criticised the government for freezing the pay of millions of other public sector workers.

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