4.5亿英镑的边境地区资金去向何处？为期十年的《边境地区增长协议》于五年前签署，旨在为边境地区的项目提供资金，以促进经济增长和互联互通。海伦·理查森，BBC东北及坎布里亚政治记者，2026年10月7日，英国夏令时06:04。这项协议最初是一项承诺，旨在提升英格兰-苏格兰边境两侧五个议会区域的经济状况。经过数年的谈判，《边境地区增长协议》终于在2021年签署。
Where has £450m Borderlands funding gone? The 10-year Borderlands Growth Deal was signed five years ago, with the intention of funding projects across the border region to boost growth and connectivity Helen Richardson Political reporter, BBC North East and Cumbria 7 October 2026, 06:04 BST It began as a promise to boost the economic fortunes of the five council areas either side of the England-Scotland border. After years of negotiations, the Borderlands Growth Deal was finally signed in 2021.
该协议被誉为“雄心勃勃的跨境合作方式”，英国政府和苏格兰政府承诺在十年内投入近5亿英镑。
Hailed as an "ambitious approach to cross-border working", nearly half a billion pounds of investment was promised from the UK and Scottish governments over a decade.
然而，在协议执行过半时，英格兰境内仅有三个项目完全完工，该协议也因延误和官僚主义障碍而受到批评。
But at the halfway point, only three projects in England are fully complete, and the deal has been criticised for delays and bureaucratic setbacks.
边境地区居住着100万人口，涵盖坎布里亚、西摩兰和弗尼斯、诺森伯兰、邓弗里斯和加利韦以及苏格兰边境这五个地方当局辖区。
One million people live in the Borderlands region, in the five local authorities of Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness, Northumberland, Dumfries and Galloway, and the Scottish Borders.
该协议将五个地方当局联合起来，将公共资金投资于旨在促进经济增长、推动旅游业发展以及振兴当地社区的项目。
The deal brought the five authorities together to invest public money on projects aimed at growing the economy, boosting tourism, and regenerating local areas.
在十年间，苏格兰政府和威斯敏斯特政府同意在各类项目上支出4.52亿英镑，这些项目将创造就业机会，改善交通和数字连接，并增加旅游业和绿色能源领域的就业岗位。
Over 10 years, the Scottish and Westminster governments agreed to spend £452m on projects which would create jobs, improve transport and digital connectivity, and increase jobs in tourism and green energy.
但那些希望这笔资金能解锁重大基础设施方案的人，例如将诺森伯兰至苏格兰之间的A1公路改为双车道、将卡莱尔至纽卡斯尔之间的A69公路改为双车道，或将边境铁路延伸至卡莱尔，恐怕会感到失望。仅其中一项基础设施方案就会耗尽整个预算。因此，最终选择的是规模较小的项目。
But those who hoped the funding would unlock major infrastructure schemes like dualling the A1 between Northumberland and Scotland, dualling the A69 between Carlisle and Newcastle, or extending the Borders Railway to Carlisle, will have been disappointed. Just one of those infrastructure schemes would have swallowed the entire budget. Instead, smaller projects were chosen.
诺森伯兰郡议会的保守党领袖格伦·桑德森议员表示：“大家坐下来思考，我们该如何投资边境地区的小城镇和小村庄？我们该如何与苏格兰政府及威斯敏斯特政府携手合作，筹集到足够的资金，去做一些原本不可能实现的事情？”例如，在集市城镇开展的小型开发项目会促进社区互动，并公开征集创意。而大型项目则需要地方议会与社区进行协商。所有创意在获得资金批准前，都会经过商业评估。
Councillor Glen Sanderson, the Conservative leader of Northumberland County Council, said "people sat down and said how can we invest in the little towns and little villages in the Borderlands? How can we actually all work together, with the Scottish government and the Westminster government, to find enough money to do things that would not normally happen?" Smaller developments in market towns, for example, involve community interaction and open calls for ideas. Larger projects involve consultation between local councils and communities. All of the ideas then go through business evaluations before funding is agreed.
西摩兰和弗内斯议会的自由民主党议员帕特里夏·贝尔表示：“这确实是一个以地方为核心的项目。它不仅仅是投资某个单一项目，而是思考我们如何以多种方式运用这笔投资，以支持城镇的未来。”来自彭里特剧团的娜塔莎·宾德表示，边境地区对彭里特剧场的投资给剧院带来了“巨大的改变”。坎布里亚首个完成的项目正是彭里特剧场的翻新工程。
Patricia Bell, a Liberal Democrat councillor on Westmorland and Furness council, said: "It really is a place-based project. It's not just about investing in one project - it's saying, how can we use that investment in a number of different ways to support the town's future?" Natasha Binder from Penrith Players said Borderlands investment in Penrith Playhouse has made a "massive difference" to the theatre The first project completed in Cumbria was the renovation of Penrith playhouse.
“这让我们感觉现在自己终于有点被关注到了，”来自彭里特剧团的娜塔莎·宾德说道。
"It's just made us feel like we're on the map a little bit now," said Natasha Binder, from the Penrith Players.
“边境地区项目方认为，我们是一个值得获得这笔资金的慈善团体，因此我们也能向人们说：‘看看我们吧。看看我们能带来多少好处，以及我们已经做了多少好事。’”彭里特还新安装了街道标识，并且已承诺为升级城堡公园提供资金。
"The Borderlands said, you are a charity group that is deserving of this money and so we've been able to say to people, 'look at us. Look how much good we can do and how much good we are already doing.'" Penrith has also got new street signs in the town, and funding has been promised to upgrade Castle Park.
彭里特镇议会规划委员会主席斯科特·杰克逊表示：“议会的财政可能比较紧张，但一旦出现机会，能够改善镇上人们注意到但尚未做好的问题——我认为这非常棒。”坎伯兰议员布莱恩·沃恩哈姆对卡莱尔火车站改造工程的持续延误感到不满。然而，坎布里亚最大的两个项目仍远未完成。
Scott Jackson, chairman of the planning committee at Penrith Town Council, said: "Council finances can be tight, but when the opportunity comes along to fix one of the things that people notice could be done better in the town - I think it's excellent." Cumberland councilllor Brian Wernham is frustrated by ongoing delays to the redevelopment of Carlisle railway station But the two biggest projects in Cumbria are far from complete.
边境地区协议为卡莱尔火车站价值4000万英镑的升级工程提供了大部分资金。
The Borderlands deal is funding most of a £40m upgrade of Carlisle railway station.
该工程原定于2025年夏季完工，但施工已陷入停滞，且成本有所上升。
It should have been finished in summer 2025 but work has stalled, and costs have risen.
坎布里亚郡自由民主党议员布莱恩·韦纳姆表示：“我们完全不知道发生了什么。”
"We've no idea what's going on," said Cumberland Liberal Democrat councillor Brian Wernham.
“我们曾被告知，将停车场迁至车站另一侧并增设新入口的计划去年就会开放。但该工地目前毫无动静，”他说。
"We were promised that the relocation of the car park to the other side of the station with a new entrance would have opened last year. Nothing's going on on this site," he said.
坎布里亚郡议会于2026年4月发布的项目声明称，车站门户计划已获批准。
Cumberland Council's on the project, from April 2026, stated that the station gateway plans had been approved.
边境地区协议共投入5000万英镑，用于开发坎布里亚大学新的市中心“城堡”校区。该“城堡”校区重建项目同样严重滞后于进度。
A total of £50m from the Borderlands Deal is being invested to develop a new city centre Citadels campus for the University of Cumbria The Citadels redevelopment project is also well behind schedule.
坎布里亚大学计划搬迁至该场地，并使用5000万英镑的边境地区资金，但关于土地所有权的协议刚刚达成。今年9月，坎布里亚郡议会表示，相关提案的工作仍在继续。
The University of Cumbria campus is due to be relocating to the site, using £50m of Borderlands funding, but an agreement over the land ownership has only just been reached. In September, Cumberland council said work was continuing on the proposals.
尽管存在延误，边境地区增长协议的支持者表示，居民不应失去信心。
Despite the delays, supporters of the Borderlands Growth Deal said residents should not lose faith.
西莫兰和弗纳斯郡议会议员帕特丽夏·贝尔表示：“需要跨越的官僚程序确实很多，而且耗时很长。”
"There are quite a lot of bureaucratic hoops to jump through. And it's taking a long time," councillor Patricia Bell of Westmorland and Furness Council said.
她说，作为一名议员，她很容易理解这些延误，但“对公众来说却很难理解”。
She said the holdups were easy for her to understand as a councillor, but "very difficult for the public to understand".
“不过，谢天谢地我们有边境地区协议，否则我们就不会有这些投资了，”她说。
"Nevertheless, thank goodness we have Borderlands, because we wouldn't have the investment otherwise," she said.
乌尔弗斯顿的罗克西剧院工程最近已经开工，埃格蒙特和道尔顿因弗纳斯也在等待通过边境地区地方计划实施的重建项目。诺森伯兰郡从边境地区增长协议中获得的成效，或许比坎布里亚郡更为显著。
Work has recently started on the Roxy theatre in Ulverston, and Egremont and Dalton-in-Furness are also waiting for regeneration projects through the Borderlands Place Programme Northumberland has arguably enjoyed more success than Cumbria from the Borderlands growth deal.
由边境地区协议部分资助的三个主要项目中，已有两个完工并对外开放，其中包括位于阿尼克花园的利利多里游乐场，以及位于伍勒的阿德杰夫林威士忌蒸馏厂。
Two out of three major projects part-funded by the Borderlands deal are already complete and open, including the Lilidorei playpark at the Alnwick Garden, and the Ad Gefrin whisky distillery in Wooler.
阿尼克（Alnwick）将通过“地方计划”（Place Programme）获得200万英镑的资金用于更新改造项目，其中包括重新开放诺森伯兰大厅（Northumberland Hall），使其成为贝利夫盖特博物馆（Bailiffgate museum）的新馆址。
Alnwick is getting £2m of funding through the Place Programme for regeneration projects, including reopening Northumberland Hall as the new home of the Bailiffgate museum.
阿尼克闲置的诺森伯兰大厅的改造工作即将开始。贝利夫盖特博物馆的理事克里斯·弗格森（Chris Ferguson）表示，这座乔治亚风格的建筑在其历史上经历过“太多的走走停停”。
Work is due to start soon on re-purposing the disused Northumberland Hall in Alnwick Chris Ferguson, trustee of the Bailiffgate museum, said the Georgian building has had "so many stop starts in its history".
他说：“当我们获得边境地区（Borderlands）的支持，能够搬到这里并为阿尼克人民和这座城镇赋予其新功能时，我们实在是太幸运了。”
"We were just really fortunate when we got support from the Borderlands to be able to move in here and do something new with it for the people of Alnwick and the town," he said.
阿尼克公交车站也将进行翻新，增设更好的照明和座椅，并改进公交车出入口。镇上著名的鹅卵石路也计划进行修缮。镇议会表示，这三个项目的施工都将“非常快”开始。
Alnwick bus station is also about to be refurbished with better lighting and seating, and an improved entrance for buses. The famous cobbles in the town are also due to be restored. The town council said work on all three projects was due to start "very soon".
但是，在诺森伯兰郡由边境地区资金支持的第三个也是最后一个重大项目陷入了停滞。
But the third and final major project in Northumberland backed by Borderlands funding has stalled.
伯威克（Berwick）改造后的麦芽厂剧院（Maltings Theatre）本来现在应该已经准备好开业了，但在围绕建筑设计的长时间争论之后，施工尚未开始。成本也从1700万英镑飙升至3600万英镑。
Berwick's redeveloped Maltings Theatre should have been ready to open by now but work has yet to begin, after lengthy arguments over the building's design. The cost has also soared from £17m to £36m.
在诺森伯兰郡议会（Northumberland County Council）同意为该项目拨款750万英镑的前提下，工程最终定于11月开工，但该协议的批评者对此并不买账。
Work is finally due to start in November, subject to Northumberland County Council agreeing to pay £7.5m towards it, but critics of the deal have not been impressed.
诺森伯兰郡议会工党领袖斯科特·迪金森（Scott Dickinson）议员表示，延误“令人沮丧”，“纽比金（Newbiggin）和普拉多（Prudhoe）等地的社区仍在等待那些承诺过却根本没有兑现的事情”。
Councillor Scott Dickinson, the leader of the Labour group on Northumberland County Council, said the delays have been "frustrating" and "communities in places like Newbiggin and Prudhoe are still waiting for things that have been promised that simply haven't materialised".
他说：“每年要花费价值超百万英镑的管理费用，而人们并没有看到项目应有的价值，因为在某些地方什么都没有发生。”
"Over a million pounds worth of administrative costs gets spent every year, and people aren't seeing the value of projects because nothing's happening in some places," he said.
边境地区董事会成员格伦·桑德森（Glen Sanderson）表示，他为边境地区发展协议（Borderlands Growth Deal）所取得的成就感到自豪。边境地区发展协议的支持者坚称，它为英格兰最北部的郡县带来了成功。桑德森是边境地区委员会的成员，他承认这些延误确实令人沮丧。
Borderlands Board member Glen Sanderson said he is proud of what the Borderlands Growth Deal has achieved Supporters of the Borderlands Growth Deal insist it has brought success to England's most northern counties. Sanderson, a Borderlands Board member, accepts the delays have been frustrating.
但他表示，由于需要与威斯敏斯特政府和苏格兰政府合作，其中涉及诸多复杂因素。
But he said there were complexities involved because you are working with the Westminster and Scottish governments.
桑德森说：“中间有多个公务员群体，因此过程看起来可能非常缓慢。”
"There are various groups of civil servants in between and it can look very slow," Sanderson said.
但他指出，一旦做出决定，“成果就会显现，而且是非常出色的成果”。
But he said when the decisions are made "the results are there and wonderful results they are".
桑德森表示，他认为这项协议“正在产生巨大影响”，并且“未来还会有更多值得期待的成果”。
Sanderson said he believed the deal was "making a great deal of difference" and "there will be more to enjoy".
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