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Grants available for business properties in Boroughbridge and Knaresborough
4 November 2008: Owners and tenants of properties
used for retail or business in the town centres of Boroughbridge
and Knaresborough are advised that public funds to help improve
their properties are still available.
The Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, earmarked
£200,000 for this scheme for Boroughbridge and Knaresborough
via its Renaissance Market Town Programme.
Harrogate Borough Council, who is working with
the local community partnerships, Yore Vision and Renaissance
Knaresborough, the town councils and the local chambers of trade,
is providing extra financial and administrative support.
Gordon Renton Chair of Renaissance Knaresborough and Keith
Ramsay, Chair of Yore Vision, are both urging businesses to get in
touch. "This project was launched some months
ago and there are some very good schemes being
developed. These things take time, particularly
as a minimum of 50 per cent of the work has to be self-funded, but
there is still money available that could be used for smaller
projects such as new shop fronts, repairs to the fabric of a
building, re-painting or other works that will help to improve
business efficiency and create employment.
"The aim is to improve the economic vitality and viability of
existing businesses, which in turn safeguard future employment and
may encourage others to relocate here. These
towns are already attractive and if we can make them even more so
by re-establishing their character and improving the appearance of
the town centres, then everybody will benefit."
Anyone interested should contact Harrogate Borough Council's
Principal Projects Officer, Rachel Cudmore, on 01423 556052 or
Daniel Harper, Business Development Officer on 01423 799149.
MEDIA CONTACT: Gordon Renton and Keith
Ramsay are available for comment respectively on 01423 867835 and
07989 851744.