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BBC News
12-06-2025
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Cullompton railway station to be revived
A Devon town will get a new railway station after a "significant victory" in winning funding.A campaign to build a new station on the main line at Cullompton has been going on for years and campaigners say it is key to unlocking the building of 5,000 homes nearby in the Culm Garden Village town's MP, Richard Foord, said there was an "irrefutable business case" for reopening the station and also welcomed the reopening of Wellington station further up the line in Chancellor made no mention of the scheme in the Spending Review on Wednesday but HM Treasury officials confirmed the funding to MPs later in the day. The new station will be built next to the motorway services at junction 28 of the M5.
BBC News
11-06-2025
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Spending review frustrates South West transport campaigners
Some politicians, railway campaigners and residents in the South West have expressed disappointment following the Government's spending review on Rachel Reeves announced £15bn of new investment in transport projects last week, and none of the money has so far been earmarked for named projects in Devon or pledged funding for affordable homes, health, defence and schools but any areas in the South West set to benefit have not been spelt out at this campaigners and local residents had hoped her speech would have included additional investment for the region - such as funding to bring back Cullompton's railway station. Mid-Devon district councillor Steve Keable said the "political reality" was that Reeves was "playing into her Labour heartland" by prioritising other parts of the who represents Taw Vale for the Liberal Democrats, said he hoped to find out "over the next few days" what would happen to "the capital funding that Cullompton and Mid Devon are so looking forward to".He added that the Cullompton Station project, as well as a separate project to build an additional junction on the M5 south of the town, could not "progress before we get the go ahead". 'Days out for children' Some local residents remain supportive of the railway station project."I think it would boost the economy of the town," one said, adding: "I think it needs some money to push local businesses forward."Another local resident said the station was "always used before" and felt "the trains would be used more" if the station was mother said it would be "fantastic" if the station came back, adding: "My children would have access to days out - it would be really wonderful for everyone." Hoping for funds Cornwall Council was awarded £184m in January by the UK's Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) to help boost the local the government announced this week it would be replacing the fund, which itself was originally established to replace EU funding by the last Conservative previously received about £400m of Objective One funding from the EU as it contained some of the poorest areas in England and government said it planned to establish a "new local growth fund" aimed at "mayoral city regions in the North and Midlands", as well as investing in up to "350 deprived communities across the UK".Jayne Kirkham, Labour MP for Truro and Falmouth, said she had been told the money from the fund would be distributed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), adding: "So that will come a bit later.""We are hoping that is coming soon and what the SPF might be morphing into," she George, Liberal Democrats MP for St Ives, said money for Cornwall should be ring-fenced if "there [was] ring-fencing for other nations".George said Cornwall had "rightly" received the investment over the last 25 years. "Now what we want to happen is to make sure Cornwall is treated as it has been over that period," he said.
BBC News
04-06-2025
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Tesco sells land vital for town bypass
Tesco has sold a piece of land which is vital to the delivery of a multi-million pound relief road for a town in Devon District Council said the news marked "the overcoming of another major hurdle to finally deliver the road" in council got £34m from central government in August to press ahead with the long-awaited bosses said this was "a crucial time" for Cullompton as it also tried to push forward with plans for a new railway station and major improvements to the nearby M5 junction, as well as the creation of a 5,000-home development. The council has always said the first stages of the 5,000-home Culm Garden Village - first proposed in 2017 - would not be built until the relief road was Keable, cabinet member for planning and economic regeneration at Mid Devon District Council, said he wanted the government to "build on this excellent progress" and make funding available to upgrade junction 28 of the said this would "unlock Culm Garden Village in earnest and address historic transport issues within the town".A new railway station is also a possibility for the town, which lost its station to the Beeching cuts in 1964, which saw more than 2,000 stations July 2024, the Labour government said it was scrapping the national Restore Your Railway plans but said it would "attempt to consider the Wellington and Cullompton stations' project".Stuart Hodges, property asset manager at Tesco, said the firm was "committed to supporting the communities we serve" and recognised "the significant benefits this relief road will bring to the town".The bypass, which secured planning permission in January 2021, will run from Station Road in the north to Duke Street in the work on the relief road is due to begin in 2026 with the road due to be completed in 2028.
