Oswestry mini-monorail plan hits buffers
Thursday 8th September 2011, 1:26PM BST.
AMBITIOUS?PLANS to run a mini-monorail through the streets of Oswestry have hit the buffers after a bid for nearly £100,000 to fund the scheme was refused.
The Dyffryn Tanat and Region Development Trust, which is behind the scheme, had hoped to net £92,500 funding.
It hoped to receive it from Oswestry’s £650,000 share of the Market Towns Revitalisation Programme.
The cash has been put aside by Shropshire Council and was open to bids from capital projects providing an immediate stimulus to towns in the county.
The trust had hoped that the monorail collection could be used or displayed at town events. But Kate Garner, Shropshire Council’s community action manager, told Oswestry Chamber of Commerce at a meeting last night that the bid for cash had been thrown out.
No-one behind the monorail scheme was available for comment today.
Ms Garner said other funding applications refused included a plan for a new Oswestry phone ‘app’ and a bed and breakfast project.
But five projects – improvements to the Oswestry Showground, developments at Oswestry Rugby Club, a ‘finger posting’ plan for the town, improvements at the Guild Hall and work on the Cambrian Railway have been approved for a total of £229,072 funding.
She said seven more Oswestry schemes were being considered later today.
By Sue Austin
UK News
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