Submissions made during the 'Support our High Street Campaign' can be found at the link below.
http://www.scottishconservatives.com/help_our_high_street/submissions.aspx
Do you think your high street needs a makeover? Do you think your community should get some of the £60 million available to help your town centre? Catch up with how the people of Scotland answered these questions by looking at the submissions. People responded from all over Scotland and locally from Kingussie, Inverness and Nairn
This campaign, originally publicised as a budget-initiative by the (opposition) Scottish Conservatives at Holyrood, has earmarked a tranche of government funding. This has now been notified to regional councils/local authorities - but with a very tight deadline (July 09?) for submission of bids. Such timing effectively rules out any bids for new work. If I were cynical, I would say that this is a deliberate ploy by the government.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall Highland Council indicating in a recent document that they intended to seek funding for some existing (or already-planned) town-centre refurbishment works - possibly including Phase 2 of the Nairn High Street pedestrianisation scheme?