News: Rotherham town centre to benefit from revival fund
Rotherham is to receive over £50,000 to help find creative ways to reduce the negative impact empty shops are having on the high street.
Communities Secretary John Denham launched the £3m fund designed to help ensure town centres remain vibrant places for people to meet and shop.
Rotherham Council will receive a grant of more than £50,000 to use as they see fit on ideas to boost the town centre and transform empty shops into something useful such as a meeting place, a learning centre or a even a showroom for local artists.
John Denham said: "We know that the downturn has really hurt high streets in areas of high deprivation across Yorkshire and the Humber. These grants will help to transform and re-open empty shops as part of our real help to keep town centres vibrant and combat the recession.
"There is no need to see unused shops on our high streets going to waste, especially when we know that it doesn't take a lot to turn a vacant shop into something beneficial for the community."
Last month the British Retail Consortium (BRC) featured Rotherham in a national report on how to maintain and strengthen the vitality and viability of our high streets.
The first successful applicants in the council-run Business Vitality Grants Scheme are set to be announced soon.
Communities Secretary John Denham launched the £3m fund designed to help ensure town centres remain vibrant places for people to meet and shop.
Rotherham Council will receive a grant of more than £50,000 to use as they see fit on ideas to boost the town centre and transform empty shops into something useful such as a meeting place, a learning centre or a even a showroom for local artists.
John Denham said: "We know that the downturn has really hurt high streets in areas of high deprivation across Yorkshire and the Humber. These grants will help to transform and re-open empty shops as part of our real help to keep town centres vibrant and combat the recession.
"There is no need to see unused shops on our high streets going to waste, especially when we know that it doesn't take a lot to turn a vacant shop into something beneficial for the community."Last month the British Retail Consortium (BRC) featured Rotherham in a national report on how to maintain and strengthen the vitality and viability of our high streets.
The first successful applicants in the council-run Business Vitality Grants Scheme are set to be announced soon.
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