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Pleasure boats idea in £1.5m package to improve Ludlow
Wednesday 19th January 2011, 2:18PM GMT.
Pleasure boats and picnic areas along the riverbank could form part of a £1.5 million package of improvements for Ludlow, it was revealed today.
Town council clerk Veronica Calderbank said it was looking for grant funding for projects to improve the town, including a number at the Linney on the banks of the River Teme.
They include a new park, children’s play area, picnic area, jetty, pleasure boats and an enlarged car park.
It is hoped the grants will help revitalise the area, which has lost eight feet of river bank due to erosion over the past four years.
Other ongoing schemes include the repair and refurbishment of the Buttercross with a view to bringing it back into community use as an educational facility.
Many of the plans are detailed in the document Ludlow Future, which outlines the town’s plan for 2010 to 2015.
Measures to be taken include completing a skate park and new facilities for the town’s boxing club at Wheeler Road, as well as the town council engaging with young people through social networking sites such as Twitter. A new town centre manager role could also be created.
Ms Calderbank said: “The funding we are seeking from different bodies for these projects is more than £1.5 million, which includes interim projects such as the Buttercross and Castle Gardens which are ongoing.”
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Dat wud b sik man innit! Ludlo needs lots of help man as der is nuffink to do there! Boats n stuff is well cool, wikid!
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So it’s a pipe dream unless somebody else provides the money?
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As Port Hill Boy notes, none of this will get off the ground unless another source of taxpayer funded cash can be identified to plunder at will. And do we really, in these times of cut backs, want yet more facilities to be provided when those which we have – witness the neglected and rundown state of the Castle Gardens – are not properly maintained and in fact haven’t been maintained for years.
As for wasting yet money on the town’s “yoof” forget it. They have a Youth Centre and a skateboard area, that is more than sufficient. As for “engaging with young people through social networking sites such as Twitter” and providing a Town Centre Manager, councils are supposed to be trying to save taxpayers’ money not frittering it away on ridiculous half-baked schemes such as this.
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