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News Update 23.11.2009

No Sea Change funding ….

Sadly, the bid for funding under the government’s ‘Sea Change’ programme for regeneration of coastal towns did not succeed.  (From at least 32 applicants, grants were awarded to seven towns.  Margate and North Tyneside were given ‘Large Grants’, and Plymouth a Feasibility Grant; in the category of ‘Open Applications’ for which we qualified, four towns - Roker, St Ives, Fleetwood and Barrow-in-Furness - were successful.  The programme initially envisaged ‘making up to 12 open application grants each year’, so the current financial climate appears to have had its effect.) 

…. but progress continues as planned

Without Sea Change funding, the Shelters project will be phased while we seek the balance of funding in other ways - an option that has always been incorporated in the project’s planning and design.  The £750,000 already earmarked will be used for the first and major phase, essentially the work at Marine Parade level, with the aim of opening that for the 2011 season.

Detailed technical preparation is going well.  The Building Regulations submission (including 73 pages of engineering calculations!) is being considered by West Dorset District Council; liaison with the developments at the adjoining Bay Hotel Annex (Bay House) is in hand; and the team is on target to send out invitations early in the new year to a short-list of contractors to tender for the work.

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