£2.7m to be spent on Shrewsbury regeneration projects
Tuesday 11th January 2011, 8:22AM GMT.
More than £2.7 million will be spent on regeneration projects in Shrewsbury over the next two years, councillors have been told.
The money is the remainder of the £5.2 million awarded to the town in 2008 under the previous Government’s Growth Point programme.
Members of the Shropshire Council enterprise and growth scrutiny committee yesterday discussed the progress made in the past two years of the scheme and the projects in line for the final tranche of funding.
Money has been pumped into initiatives to provide affordable homes and support the regeneration of the historic Ditherington Flax Mill.
Future funding priorities include improvements to the Chester Street gyratory, the development of eight state-of-the-art sustainable homes at Greenfields and the major Riverside scheme which includes bars, restaurants, cafes and residential units.
Committee chairman Alan Mosley said Growth Point had played an important role in stimulating the town’s economy and would continue to do so.
Figures presented to members showed that it is proposed to spend £1,763,365 in 2011/12 and just over £1 million in 2012/13.
A report said that over the past year funding had supported the development of 57 affordable homes at Spring Gardens and marketing of the former Tesco superstore site at Arlington Way to enable a development site of more than 100 homes.
Funding had helped complete the acquisition of the Arriva bus depot site as part of the Ditherington Flax Mill project.
The bus depot will relocate to Harlescott.
Support was also being given through Growth Point to the redevelopment of the Music Hall to provide “fantastic” new state-of-the-art cultural facilities including a museum and contemporary art gallery.
This project, the report said, would enable Shrewsbury to “fully exploit its natural and cultural assets”.
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look how many houses r for sale by the site of the eco houses , there is a HUGE problem with fires and damaged to cars/houses here DONT BUILD MORE , we have ENOUGH problems as it is (just cost us over £1000 to repair our cars from last time)
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Hey Ho that means council tax will go up.
What a waste of time, no one will be able to afford to rent the shops etc anyhow.
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Hopefully it will be spent on things that will create proper jobs. Not minimum wage, boom economy dependent, ones in cafes and restaurants. Or on schemes like last year’s “Best Curry House” !
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Is a job not a job? if unemployed I am sure you would be glad of employment minimum wage or not, even if it is just a stop gap while you try and find better employment.We have the unions saying that over 100 thousand jobs are to be lost by councils however two of the big supermarkets are to create thousands of jobs. I hope these new unemployed will forget their pride and apply for the jobs instead of relying on benefits unemployed is unemployed no matter what your OLD role was.
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The STCRA are currently drawing up a list of what the council are allowed to spend the money on.
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It’s funny how a councillor is hoping that Grand Designs programme are going to get involved in this housing venture in Greenfields.
This same councillor was active, along with all of the others on the planning committee in preventing another private house application a few years ago getting planning permission that was definately on the GD agenda for filming.
As the local residents have said the ‘eco’ credentials are greenwash as all new developments can acheive sustainability through, insulation, insulation, insulation!
If they also incorporate solar technology they will have to remove large trees though I believe they have already done that!
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I guess this also means a large chunk of
2.7 million pounds will awarded to business friends of certain local councillors.
Complete transparacy is required
from the Shropshire Council and I expect the
Shropshire Star and the Shrewsbury Cronicle
to truthfully report on whether or not this is the case.
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