Fresh bid for Shrewsbury Flax Mill funding
Thursday 24th November 2011, 10:59AM GMT.
A fresh multi-million pound bid to transform Shrewsbury’s historic Flax Mill will be submitted next week as part of a major regeneration scheme, it has been revealed.
The money will form part of a £30 million scheme to regenerate the Grade One listed site in Ditherington providing homes, shops and offices.
The new bid has been put together by partners Shropshire Council, English Heritage and the Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings.
It comes after a failed attempt to secure £12.7 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund earlier this year.
At the time officials from the HLF said the project was ‘excellent’ but there was not enough money to support it at that time.
Councillor Alan Moseley, chairman of the Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings group, said the new bid was superior to the previous one but remained tight-lipped about the amount of money requested this time around.
He said: “It is a much improved bid from the last one in terms of content.”
He added that the amount of money requested would be slightly less than the last bid.
Richard Lawrence, head of Shrewsbury Growth Point at Shropshire Council, confirmed the bid was being submitted by November 30.
Long-awaited plans for the site were approved in November 2010 and include 200 homes, offices and shops.
The Flax Mill was built in 1796 by Shrewsbury entrepreneurs Thomas and Benjamin Benyon. It was the world’s first iron framed building.
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