Stop Press - Further empty shops funding announced.
The government has announced further funding to support towns hit badly by the recession.
Fifty towns will receive grants to develop meanwhile projects in empty shops and revitalise their high streets.
In the south, Eastbourne, Hastings, Gosport, Havant, Porstmouth, Southampton, Gravesham, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Reading and Worthing will receive grants.
'This is fantastic news at it allows our members to develop projects supporting innovation and creativity,' says Dan Thompson from the Empty Shops Network, 'driving a reinvention of the high street which is good for business and the community.'
Dan is author of the Empty Shops Workbook, written with support from the Meanwhile Project who have also secured further funding.
'The Development Trusts Association welcomes the Government’s support for the next phase of the Meanwhile Project. This project helps people to act now rather than watch our town centres and neighbourhoods decline while we wait for recovery. Assets exist in time as well as space - an empty building or delayed site development is social and economic value lost. We cannot afford to let such resources go to waste any longer,' says the Development Trusts Association's Jess Steele 'Working in partnership with councils and town centre managers, owners and agents, community groups and creative projects across the country, we can begin to reinvent the high street and make ‘meanwhile use’ a mainstream part of the way we do business.'
Fifty towns will receive grants to develop meanwhile projects in empty shops and revitalise their high streets.
In the south, Eastbourne, Hastings, Gosport, Havant, Porstmouth, Southampton, Gravesham, Medway, Shepway, Swale, Reading and Worthing will receive grants.
'This is fantastic news at it allows our members to develop projects supporting innovation and creativity,' says Dan Thompson from the Empty Shops Network, 'driving a reinvention of the high street which is good for business and the community.'
Dan is author of the Empty Shops Workbook, written with support from the Meanwhile Project who have also secured further funding.
'The Development Trusts Association welcomes the Government’s support for the next phase of the Meanwhile Project. This project helps people to act now rather than watch our town centres and neighbourhoods decline while we wait for recovery. Assets exist in time as well as space - an empty building or delayed site development is social and economic value lost. We cannot afford to let such resources go to waste any longer,' says the Development Trusts Association's Jess Steele 'Working in partnership with councils and town centre managers, owners and agents, community groups and creative projects across the country, we can begin to reinvent the high street and make ‘meanwhile use’ a mainstream part of the way we do business.'