Harlow Council hopes its unsuccessful bid for £20m for regeneration project of an arts and cultural plaza will be re-thought.
The council's bid for funding for Playhouse Quarter and Stone Cross Square was absent from the government's levelling up fund list last week.
However, they hope its funding bid will be approved in a second tranche of funding allocations in the Spring.
Harlow’s MP Robert Halfon said the bid “scored very highly by officials”.
The fund would go towards creating an arts and cultural plaza in Playhouse Quarter and a social and leisure-focused events space in Stone Cross Square.
Mr Halfon continued to state he will “continue to work hard” with the council to secure more investment.
The MP pointed to the funding that the town has already secured such as the £23.7million government investment to kickstart key regeneration projects secured by the council in June.
The government has also announced that the council will receive £2.7million boost Harlow’s economy.
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