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£250m plan for Telford town revamp
£8m regeneration
Cafés, bars, restaurants and a new pedestrian high street to head transformation
criteria announced
The Isle of Man government By Pete Hayman
has unveiled the outline
eligibility criteria for towns and Detailed plans for a £250m
villages interested in applying project, designed to transform
for a share of an £8m funding the town centre of Telford in
package to support regeneration Shropshire, have been unveiled
schemes. Outline guidance by Telford and Wrekin Council
notes have also been made (TWC) and the Southwater
available by the Department for Event Group (SEG).
Trade and Industry as part of the It is anticipated that the
Town and Village Regeneration proposals will provide the town
Scheme. The scheme will operate with a thriving night-time
through local committees to economy centred around a
promote improvements to pedestrian high street and
island communities. including cafés, bars and restau- The Telford scheme will be based on a new pedestrian high street
rants, as well as a new public
Maidenhead
square for events and arts. revamped ice rink, a new TWC leader Andrew Eade
plans unveiled
The project also includes an leisure pool and a cinema. said: "After many years of talk
A public consultation into extension to the SEG-owned Other aspects of the scheme and false dawns, we at last
plans for the long-term Telford International Centre in a include two new hotels to have a scheme that can be
regeneration of Maidenhead, bid to attract an additional provide an additional 450 delivered. This is no longer
Berkshire, has been launched by 200,000 conference visitors rooms, four office buildings something that will remain on
the local authority and the each year, while a new leisure and a new Learning and Media paper but something that I am
Partnership for the hub will also be created. Centre, as well as a residential certain people will very soon
Rejuvenation of Maidenhead Facilities will include a development. start to see taking shape."
(PRoM). PRoM and the Royal
Borough of Windsor and
Maidenhead council are seeking
John o'Groats plans revealed
Plug pulled on
comments from local residents
Welsh scheme
on a number of proposals, By Tom Walker Plans for the construction
including how to create a more of a new £100m retail
attractive town centre with A masterplan for a major and leisure development
improved green spaces. redevelopment of John at Llanfair P.G. on
o'Groats in Scotland has been Anglesey, North Wales,
Design team selected
unveiled by Highlands and have been withdrawn by
for historic mill
Islands Enterprise (HIE) and the company behind the
A historic 18th century mill in consultants, GVA Grimley. scheme, Ynys Mon Estates.
Shrewsbury, Shropshire, is set to The plans, involving a The Isle of Anglesey
be redeveloped as a visitor 5-hectare (12.4-acre) town County Council has
attraction after a design team centre site, incorporate Plans include a new town centre confirmed that it has
led by architects Feilden Clegg suggestions put forward by received confirmation
Bradley Studios was appointed to local residents and businesses The first phase of the four from Ynys Mon that it had
draw up plans for the site's as well as tourists to the region. phase scheme would include pulled out of the Ty Mawr
future. The team has been A destination focal point such the restoration or replacement project – to include a
appointed to examine as a sculpture or an artwork has of the John o'Groats hotel, a cinema, bowling alley and
sustainable solutions for the been proposed as part of the new harbour square, a fitness centre – seven
212-year-old Ditherington Flax scheme and would help to refurbished Last House months after it was given
Mills. English Heritage acquired draw 'end to enders' to a main Museum and work to upgrade the go-ahead by planners
the mill in 2005. square near the town's harbour. coastal paths.
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