Britain could be home to second 'megacity', Border to Coast says

Stronger links between Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield could create ‘MegaCity North’

Jonathan Stapleton
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With better links to surrounding cities, places such as Sheffield could be seen as part of a much bigger agglomeration
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With better links to surrounding cities, places such as Sheffield could be seen as part of a much bigger agglomeration

Cities in the North and the Midlands could link together into a networked urban region on the scale of a global megacity in the decades ahead, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership says.

As part of its Future Britain work looking at how the changing world around us could reshape life and investment in the UK, the £120bn Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool said that, rather ...

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