Deprivation and seclusion among factors for funds

THE availability of local services and the degree to which residents are isolated or integrated were amongst the factors that helped determine the areas that will receive a major cash boost from the government.

- BY PAUL FAULKNER

The Moor Nook neighbourhood in Ribbleton

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Skelmersdale is among six small parts of Lancashire were last week told they would each be handed £20m over the next decade from the Pride in Place fund - and details have now been revealed about the criteria on which allocations from the nationwide cash pot were based.

Neighbourhoods in Preston (Ribbleton, including Moor Nook and Grange), Blackpool (Little Layton and Little Carleton, including Grange Park), Fleetwood (parts of the Pharos and Mount wards), Morecambe (West End), Skelmersdale (south east, including Digmoor) and Blackburn (Shadsworth and Intack) are amongst 169 beneficiaries across the UK.