Projects from all around the English coast will benefit from the investment, Culture and Tourism Minister Barbara Follett confirmed today. The successful schemes were judged to be innovative and aspirational, and will provide long term benefit to the public, with priority given to areas of high deprivation.
A £1 million grant for Berwick-upon-Tweed will help restore the iconic 18th century Dewar's Lane Granary building as an exhibition space and youth hostel. Bexhill-on-Sea will also receive £1 million to continue the next stage of their successful seafront improvement scheme, and a £480,800 grant for Littlehampton will help with major design-led improvements along the seafront. A further nine projects will also receive funding.
This is the second tranche of grants to be awarded in the first year of the £45 million, three-year DCMS-funded programme, being led by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). In August, the first large grant awards were confirmed for Blackpool, Torbay and Dover. The funding announced today is for the smaller open application grants which can be up to £1 million.
