A REALLY confident sign that Corby is on the up is the level of out-of-town interest that Corby seems to generate.
Within the past six months alone Corby has had visits from Nick Clegg (Deputy PM) who provided a Q&A session in November, Michael Gove (Education Minister) who visited Corby schools, Greg Barker (Energy Minister) who visited local businesses, as did Ed Vaizey (Communications Minister), Kris Hopkins (Housing Minister), who visited Priors Hall housing scheme, and the entire UKTI food and drink investment team, who visited in February to see for t
A REALLY confident sign that Corby is on the up is the level of out-of-town interest that Corby seems to generate.
Within the past six months alone Corby has had visits from Nick Clegg (Deputy PM) who provided a Q&A session in November, Michael Gove (Education Minister) who visited Corby schools, Greg Barker (Energy Minister) who visited local businesses, as did Ed Vaizey (Communications Minister), Kris Hopkins (Housing Minister), who visited Priors Hall housing scheme, and the entire UKTI food and drink investment team, who visited in February to see for themselves the array of opportunities Corby has to offer to overseas food and drink companies looking to set up a UK operation.
It’s not surprising, therefore, that Corby now attracts this high-profile interest given the full scale of what’s happened and happening here. Already delivered is a £8m train station, a £40m college, new schools, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a £50m civic centre with theatre and library and a £8m Enterprise Centre.
In progress are a £32m southern relief road that will half the drive time between A14 and Corby, a £3.8m northern link road that will speed up access to northern industrial areas, pioneering work by Electric Corby to make Corby the UK’s leading green town, with over 40 electric vehicle charging points (more per capita than any other UK town) and building cutting edge new homes that will have zero energy bills guaranteed for two years and what is officially Europe’s largest house building scheme at Priors Hall.
At the planning stage are two separate resource recovery parks plus plans to build local renewable energy facilities to meet Corby’s ambitions to provide its own cheap energy for its own businesses. And, of course, it will soon have a smashing new cinema in its vastly improved town centre.
We set up in Corby two years ago because we believe this town has a bright future. Looking at what’s happened and what’s due to happen, its hard to disagree but still there is negative sentiment out there so we do what we can to promote Corby. To help land this message we made a YouTube video – find it here: bit.ly/N63Jd1 or search for Corby Going Places on YouTube.
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