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NEWS:	July 2010 - Heywood Firm Completes Major Expansion • July 2010 - New Public Art Opens in Middleton • July 2010 - Work starts on JD Sports warehouse on Kingsway Business Park • June 2010 - RDA team wins excellence in regeneration award • May 2010 - JD Sports signs deal for largest warehouse on Kingsway Business Park • Apr 2010 - Rochdale to host UK ’s biggest bike race • Mar 2010 - Community unites to combat fly-tipping • Mar 2010 - Broughton Controls relocates to Rochdale • Mar 2010 - Local people asked to give their views on town centre regeneration • Feb 2010 - Rochdale sites spruced up in preparation for investment • Jan 2010 - Council signs Building Schools for the Future contract • Nov 2009 - Fun and games as businesses ‘go for gold’ at Lock 50 Business Centre • Nov 2009 - Successful Heywood company opens new production line

Top Kingsway facts

Kingsway is equivalent to half the size of Manchester city centre
A business community of 7,250 direct and 1,750 indirect jobs is expected to be established on Kingsway by 2022
Kingsway is estimated to add £250 - £350 million per year to the Rochdale and North West economy when it is completed
8 million people live within 60 minutes drive time of Kingsway Business Park
The combined length of Kingsway's planned roads, cycle paths and footpaths is over 24 miles
11,000 trees have been planted in the first phase of infrastructure works. More than 40,000 trees will be planted in total on the whole site
An estimated one million cubic metres of soil will be moved during the course of infrastructure works on the site
As a key North West Regional Development Agency strategic site, Kingsway will receive £31 million in NWDA development funding

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