Pride in Place Funding for Southern Holderness - Beverley and Holderness Labour Party

Last October the Labour government announced a £5 billion Pride in Place programme to invest in over 330 disadvanaged neighbourhoods, including Withernsea and southern Holderness villages in our constituency. This flagship community programme focuses on neighbourhoods that experience high deprivation & weaker social infrastructure.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has now received the first £19.6 million of the funds for Withernsea and Bridlington from the Labour Government.

How the funding will be used is to be decided by the people who live in the designated areas through a new Pride in Place Board – so it’s important for those people to have their say. The board must include at least one ward councillor and the local MP. It is expected to be in place by summer 2026 Talk to your Parish, Town & ERYC ward councillors and make sure other local representatives are on the board – they can’t just allocate this money without consulting you!

Using this scheme local people will have a range of powers to make changes in their area:

Community Right to Buy: handing local people the power to buy beloved assets, helping them turn around derelict pubs, create new parks and regenerate treasured spaces in the heart of their communities.

Compulsory Purchase powers: allowing communities to acquire assets and eyesores like boarded up shops and derelict abandoned businesses, allowing new local start-ups to thrive. For larger sites – like abandoned office blocks and industrial units – it could even see new health centres opening up, or local housing to help people without their own homes.

Power to block unwanted shops: empowering councils in England to say no to new betting shops, vape stores and fake barbers.

Some of the ideas already put forward by residents range from ambitious projects such as rebuilding Withernsea Pier to smaller-scale improvements such as new play equipment and upgraded community facilities.

The money could be used for projects such as

Revitalising high streets
Dealing with anti-social behaviour
Investing in community facilities
Supporting skills development & routes into employment

Got an idea?

Let us know your suggestions and we’ll make sure they are passed on. What ideas do you have for transforming life in Withernsea, Patrington, Easington, Kilnsea, Winestead, Welwick, Skeffling, Holmpton and Hollym?

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South Holderness Pride in Place Ideas

The communities of South Holderness (Withernsea, Patrington and villages) are in line to receive £20 million in additional community funding over the next ten years from the Labour Government's Pride in Place Programme. It can be spent on improving community spaces, buying abandoned shops, youth groups, cleaning up the town or anything that improves Withernsea and Patrington. We hope that this money will transform these communities. Local residents know what changes their areas need, and that is why communities will be leading the delivery of the programme, calling the shots on how funding is spent. Suggest your ideas below and we shall make sure that they get to the South Holderness Neighbourhood Board when it is set up.