John Denham

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John Denham has been representing Southampton Itchen in Parliament since 1992. 

He is currently Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. 

On this website you'll find news about what John's been up to in both Southampton and Westminster. 

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Arts Centre Bid

John has urged the Arts Council to support the City Council’s bid for a new Arts Centre on the site of the former Tyrrell & Green Department Store.

Mr Denham has intervened after it was revealed that the Arts Council had delayed a decision pending further talks with the City Council.

John said:, "Before Easter it was widely believed that the Arts Council was planning to reject this important project.  I lobbied Culture, Media & Sports Minister, Ben Bradshaw, to ask the Arts Council to have another look at the project.   This is now happening and it gives a glimmer of hope to a key part of the city’s vision for an ‘Arts & Education Quarter’ from the Mayflower, Guildhall, Solent University and the new Arts Centre. The new delay is not necessarily bad news – so long as it results in a positive decision.”

John will be writing to the Arts Council again supporting the project and also to the new Culture Minister, Jeremy Hunt, urging him to take as active an interest in the project as his Labour predecessor had done.