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£17m HLF funding for UK landscapes

Cash boost to help support schemes to provide long-term benefits for rural areas

By Pete Hayman

A number of the UK's most iconic landscapes are in line to receive a share of £17m through the Heritage Lottery Fund's (HLF) Landscape Partnerships (LP) initiative. The scheme, which has seen

£72m invested over the past six years, is designed to help conserve areas with "distinct" character and also support projects to provide long-term benefits for rural areas. Among the 10 landscapes to

receive a first-round pass from the HLF is the Clyde and Avon Valley LP in Scotland, which is in line to net £2m towards plans to introduce a pro- gramme of practical activities. The Tees Vale and Barnard

Castle, Staffordshire Moorlands and the Solway Wetlands LPs

The Belfast Hills is among the landscapes to receive HLF funding

have been earmarked nearly £2m towards a range of schemes. Druridge Bay is set to benefit from nearly £1.9m. Somerset's Avalon Marshes

(£1.87m); Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Northern Ireland (£1.61m); the White Cliffs of Dover (£1.6m) and the Belfast Hills (£1.2m)

are also among the LPs to be been handed first-round passes, as well as the Meres and Mosses in Shropshire (£1.1m). HLF chair Dame Jenny

Abramsky said: "Landscapes play a huge role in our lives and are often the backdrop to daily routines – but we mustn't take them for granted."

Jodrell Bank scheme secures £3m funding boost

By Martin Nash

The Planet Pavilion is set to

The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) are to provde funding of £3.1m to kickstart the creation of a Science Discovery Centre at Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory. The news coincides with

confirmation that the project has been granted planning permission by Cheshire East Council, with work set to start on site as soon as next month. An investment of £2.1m will

be made by the NWDA and £1m by ERDF in the Northwest. A further £600,000 is coming from the University of Man- chester (UM), the telescope being part of the latter's School of Physics and Astronomy.

A new admissions building is part of the Jodrell Bank plans

The project includes a Planet

Pavilion entrance building with an orientation centre and glass-walled café offering views of the Lovell telescope, a Space Pavilion for exhibitions and events, an education space and landscaping of the Arboretum to create a new Galaxy Maze and a Space Garden.

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open by the end of this year and the remaining work is due to be completed by summer 2011. The observatory said that current visitor facilities will be kept open as much as possible as the development proceeds. Steven Broomhead, chief

executive of the NWDA, said:

"Jodrell Bank is already an icon in the Northwest and a visitor attraction in its own right, but it has the potential to attract more national and international visitors to the region." Dr Teresa Anderson, director

of the Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre Project, said: "Alongside redeveloping our facilities we will be taking the opportunity to revitalise our visitor pro- gramme, and look forward to welcoming lots of new people to Jodrell Bank in the future."

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