RDA urged to provide more detail on ‘job opportunities’

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Rochdale’s Labour Parliamentary Candidate, Simon Danczuk, has urged Rochdale Development Agency to provide assurances that they are not misleading local people about job opportunities that do not exist through the Kingsway Partnership road show event.

Speaking as members of the Kingsway Business Park team embarked on a “community engagement” tour of Rochdale, which will see Kingsway employees taking their road show to shopping centres in the Borough, Mr Danczuk warned that he did not want to see a repeat of the “misleading” De Veres Hotel job opportunities drive.

“After what happened with the De Veres hotel withdrawing their commitment to locate to Kingsway Business Park earlier this year, I think Rochdale Development Agency and the Kingsway Partnership owe it to the people to explain what these job opportunities are,” he said.

“Earlier this year Kingsway launched a training programme to equip people with the hospitality skills they would need to take up the 200 jobs that were expected to be created by the De Vere Village Hotel,” he added. “I’m sure many of those who signed up to this training programme expecting to work at this four star hotel were intensely frustrated when the hotel pulled out and the job opportunities vanished. I wouldn’t want people to experience the same disappointment, which is why I want to know if the ‘job opportunities’ that the Kingsway team are selling really exist this time.”