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£2million funding boost for Huddersfield Blueprint

Posted on September 24, 2020 by chelseykirklees One comment

The Huddersfield Blueprint regeneration vision has been given a major funding boost, with a £2million grant secured to help deliver the George Hotel’s transformation into the new National Rugby League Museum.

Delivery of Huddersfield and Dewsbury Blueprints set to ramp up with £100million investment

Posted on September 21, 2020 by AlexKirklees 15 comments

£100million investment plan for Huddersfield and Dewsbury Blueprints gets green light Kirklees Council’s Cabinet has approved a £100million investment which will help deliver key town centre regeneration projects as part of the Huddersfield and Dewsbury Blueprint plans. In June 2019 the council launched its Huddersfield Blueprint plan and followed this up in February 2020 with the unveiling of its Dewsbury

Keys handed over for the birthplace of rugby league

Posted on September 9, 2020 by AlexKirklees 3 comments

Kirklees Council now officially owns Huddersfield’s iconic George Hotel – with work to create a National Rugby League Museum in the building set to get underway. On 16 June 2020, Kirklees Council’s Cabinet approved a deal to purchase the George Hotel which is famous for being the birthplace of rugby league in 1895. The deal has now been completed, with the

RUGBY LEAGUE CAME HOME

Posted on September 8, 2020 by EliseKirklees One comment

A unique exhibition was held in St George’s Square, Huddersfield on Saturday 29 August 2020 to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the formation of Rugby League.

We will continue to engage businesses on 1.2m Huddersfield Blueprint walking and cycling scheme

Posted on August 19, 2020 by EliseKirklees 9 comments

We have pledged to continue engaging local businesses on a scheme to improve Huddersfield town centre for cycling and walking, as laid out in our ambitious blueprint for the town centre.

Funding boost from council will see more bobbies on the beat in town centres

Posted on July 3, 2020 by EliseKirklees 5 comments

We will fund the positions of five police officers who will work across Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Centres starting from 1st July 2020.

National Rugby League Museum to be created in Huddersfield

Posted on June 24, 2020 by EliseKirklees 4 comments

Rugby league is coming home – as we have won a bid to create a National Rugby League Museum in the Huddersfield hotel where the sport was born 125 years ago.

Council gets deal to buy the birthplace of rugby league over the line

Posted on June 16, 2020 by AlexKirklees 6 comments

Cabinet has agreed a deal to purchase Huddersfield’s iconic George Hotel after submitting a bid to create a National Rugby League Museum in the building – where the sport was born. The Grade II-listed George Hotel in Huddersfield is famous for being the birthplace of rugby league in 1895. The hotel was built in 1851 and closed in January 2013. Why are we buying it?

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