Multi-million pound town schemes cases to be put forward
| Published date | 24 June 2022 |
The Brighouse business cases - the town was the first to be told it had a successful bid - for five projects are due to be submitted by the end of July but as these will involve switching small portions of the money from two of the schemes to two others, it will need government approval to make the changes first.
Meanwhile the Todmorden business cases will be submitted to the government for their ten schemes early in August, with a pledge that there will be more consultation opportunities, particularly over one of the more controversial items.
Some of the Town Board projects are community-led and other aspects council-led.
The new Cabinet member for Towns, Engagement and Public
Health, Coun Sarah Courtney (Lab, Calder), said with strong market towns in Calderdale the building blocks were in place for making progress. "We want to make sure we are investing in those towns to make the built environment as good as it can be and make it better because that has a positive impact on activity levels," she said.
"This includes making people more active, encouraging more active travel and helping people age well, and public health indicated to make sure of an active population developing streets that feel safe was important."
The council's Assistant Director for Housing, Economy and Investment, Kate McNicholas, said the
Brighouse Board had agreed some changes in the way the resources were split, all relating to public space schemes - this request has to be approved by, and has been submitted to, the government and indications were positive.
This will see a relatively small reduction in the money for the Brighouse Welcome project of just under £500,000 and while a sum was also being taken from the Canalside/ Thornton Square the outcome delivered should be the same.
Almost £1 million has been moved to the project promoting increasing walking and active travel, and a similar sum is being put into the scheme to revitalise Brighouse Market, in terms of the number of units and location.
Additionally, around £150,000 extra will be put into the Industry 4.0 hub project, which aims to build on Brighouse's industrial reputation by developing a state of the art digital hub which small and medium sized...
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