Our vision for Blyth
By 2030, Blyth will be the thriving UK and international centre of renewable energy and advanced manufacturing growth and innovation, providing new jobs, better skills, more homes, and a clean environment for people in the town and the wider North East region. In short, Blyth will offer more and better opportunities for local people. It will be a vibrant and welcoming community, offering a great quality of life, with new and improved cultural facilities, on the doorstep of the beautiful Northumbrian coastline and countryside.
What is Energising Blyth?
A £90m regeneration programme to transform Blyth, funded by the Government’s Future High Street Fund, Town Deal and Levelling Up Deep Dive funidng, plus investment from Northumberland County Council and our partners. From 2021 to 2027 several major capital projects are being explored and if approved, they will:
- Renew the town centre with new cultural, education, leisure and residential projects around a revitalised Market Place.
- Create 7,500 jobs, 5,000 learning opportunities, and attract over 100,000 extra visitors to Blyth each year.
- Provide skills, culture and leisure activities to local people, communities and businesses.
- Improve walking and cycling routes and connections to public transport networks, making it easier to travel to and from Blyth.
- Boost the growth of Blyth's major renewable energy industry at the Quayside, Port of Blyth and industrial sites.
- Repurpose run-down and empty homes into high-quality affordable housing to rent and convert under-occupied offices into new apartments. Improving energy efficiency in social housing and supporting the establishment of an Empty Homes Team.
- Provide new high-tech training equipment at the town’s new Energy Central Campus, providing local young people with a route to high-quality jobs on their doorstep.
- Help to reduce crime in Blyth by extending CCTV provision in the town centre and establishing a new partnership between local businesses and the police. These interventions will target anti-social behaviour, substance misuse and theft in particular.
