A short walk down memory lane (text in brown below taken from a report - by the City Partnership officer - to the Highland Council, Inverness City Committee 25 June 2007)
"The Scottish Executive introduced the Cities Growth Fund in 2003 in recognition of a historic lack of investment in the infrastructure of Scotland’s six cities. Each city was invited to prepare an investment plan in the form of a City Vision. The Inverness City Vision, containing 15 development themes (see appendix 1), was awarded a total of £5.949m for the 5 years April 2003 to March 2008.
‘Streetscape’ was identified as one of the top 4 themes within the Inverness City Vision and the Inverness City Centre Streetscape & Traffic Management Programme received the largest funding allocation (£2.845m) from the fund. The total funding package for Streetscape is £6.043m (as detailed in appendix 2). Understandably, it is also the highest profile project and is being delivered by The Highland Council’s Transport, Environmental and Community Services (TECS). TECS are responsible for traffic and contract management, with support from Inverness City Partnership who provides coordination and communications.
The construction programme is scheduled to last 90 weeks with a projected completion date of 21 November 2008. The work is being carefully phased (see appendix 2) to minimise disruption to businesses and transport."
The full report can be found on the Highland Council web site:
http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/559B78D3-054B-4600-9D69-99D94CFB1013/0/ICC02.pdf
An interim evaluation of the Cities Growth Fund can be found on the Scottish Government web site at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/27153210/0
[The Cities Growth Fund was introduced by the Scottish Executive following the Review of Scotland's Cities in 2003. Totalling £90m to be spent between 2003-06, the Fund was to be used to support projects that contributed to the growth of each city, and to the development of the wider city region. A further allocation of £83 million was later approved for 2006-08. Funds were allocated through the Local Government Finance Settlement. Accordingly each city received an allocation in proportion to its population.]
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