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The Carlisle projects set to be financed by the multi-million-pound Future High Streets Fund investment package have been chosen.
The projects that will be carried out using the funding include £4.7m of repurposing work on the site of the former Central Plaza Hotel on Victoria Viaduct, in order to allow for the site to be redeveloped.
Demolition of the former hotel was completed early last year, after the crumbling building was deemed unsafe.
It was confirmed on Boxing Day that Carlisle was set to receive £9.1m in Government investment, as part of its Future High Streets Fund scheme, which seeks to inject cash into projects across England that will help boost the economic development of town and city centres.
Councillor John Mallinson, leader of Carlisle City Council. The Carlisle projects set to be financed by the multi-million pound Future High Streets Fund investment package have been chosen. The projects that will be carried out using the funding include £4.7m of repurposing works on the site of the former Central Plaza Hotel on Victoria Viaduct, in order to allow for the site to be redeveloped. Demolition of the former hotel was completed early last year, after the crumbling building was deemed unsafe. It was confirmed on Boxing Day that Carlisle was set to receive £9.1m in Government investment, as part of its Future High Streets Fund scheme, which seeks to inject cash into projects across England that will help boost the economic development of town and city centres.
David Ellesmere outside the pigeon-blighted silo on Ipswich Waterfront.
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Just days after the government confirmed that Ipswich would be getting £25m as part of the Towns Deal Fund, the borough is taking the first steps towards pressing ahead with one of the most significant elements of its proposed developments.
It is preparing to appoint specialists to clean up the interior of the former Paul s Specialist Maltings silo between Stoke Bridge and Dance East which has been empty for more than a decade.
The inside of the building is so seriously contaminated with pigeon droppings that it has been impossible for anyone to get inside to examine the structure - and the cost could run into six figures.
Carlisle and Workington are set to receive more than £40m in Government funding, it has been confirmed. It was announced yesterday that Carlisle and Workington were two of the 45 towns and small cities set to benefit from the latest round of funding from the Government s £3.6bn Towns Fund investment pot. The news came as part of the Chancellor s 2021 budget announcements, which set out the Government s tax and spend plans for the coming year. Yesterday s announcement that Carlisle was to receive £19.7m of Towns Fund investment comes just a few months after the news the city will receive more than £9.1m in Future High Streets Fund investment - another Government funding programme intended to help encourage economic growth in towns and cities across the country.
David Ellesmere outside the pigeon-blighted silo on Ipswich Waterfront.
- Credit: Archant
Just days after the government confirmed that Ipswich would be getting £25m as part of the Towns Deal Fund, the borough is taking the first steps towards pressing ahead with one of the most significant elements of its proposed developments.
It is preparing to appoint specialists to clean up the interior of the former Paul s Specialist Maltings silo between Stoke Bridge and Dance East which has been empty for more than a decade.
The inside of the building is so seriously contaminated with pigeon droppings that it has been impossible for anyone to get inside to examine the structure - and the cost could run into six figures.