Delivering for Redcar and Cleveland

When I was fortunate to be elected as the first ever Mayor of the Tees Valley in May 2017, I pledged that I would serve every community that makes up the Tees Valley – including Redcar and Cleveland. This means that every one of the five council areas that make our area gets its fair share.

We’re investing your money - taxpayers’ money - so we can build that high growth, high wage, low welfare economy we desperately need. But this shouldn’t be some impossible dream. Just look at our record of delivery on investment in Redcar and Cleveland. 

A record of delivery on investment

• £1 million for the South Tees Industrial Zone Access Roundabout 
• £6.4 million for Kirkleatham Estate Walled Garden & Catering Academy
• £300,000 for a new access road in Port Clarence
• £970,000 for Stockton Riverside College & Redcar & Cleveland College IT Infrastructure
• £11.2 million for STDC land preparation
• £10 million for Indigenous Growth Fund

Project pipeline for Redcar and Cleveland

We also have an exciting pipeline of projects in Redcar and Cleveland that we will fund.

• Nunthorpe Parkway Station
• Redcar Central Station
• Skippers Lane Industrial Estate Extension
• Revitalising Redcar 

Supporting business and individuals

As well as funding large capital projects, we have also provided support and funding to Redcar and Cleveland businesses and individuals through a number of dedicated funding pots, these include:

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• £1.2 million from the Tees Valley Business Support schemes
• £680,000 of Business Compass grants
• £5,000 for Start Up: Scale Up Programme
• £91,000 from our Apprenticeship Grant scheme
• £1.6 million from the Routes to Work scheme, helping hundreds back to work
• £367,000 from the Government’s Access Fund to promote sustainable transport
• £2.5 million from the Government’s National Productivity Grant scheme
• £322,000 from the SSI Jobs & Skills Fund
• £5 million for the Redcar Growth Zone
• £3.9 million for the SSI Devolved Pot