25 September 2002
£4.5 Million For Sheffield's Heritage
Almost £4.5 million is to be invested into conserving Sheffield's heritage as plans by the City Council and the Cultural Industries Quarter Agency (CIQ) got the go ahead on Wednesday.
Cabinet approved proposals to seek funding from Objective One of £276, 000 as the final piece of the jigsaw for a multi-million package to bring back into use key historical and architecturally important buildings.
It will mean key buildings in the Cultural Industries Quarter such as Scotia Works, Butchers Works and Columbia Place will once again be home to business 'start ups' as they were in the nineteenth century. The future of Sheffield Metal Trades buildings such as Leah's Yard, Anglo Works on Trippet Lane and the Stag and Portland Works will also be secured.
Two initiatives - the Heritage Lottery Fund's Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) and the Sheffield Metal Trades Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme (HERS) - are being brought together to restore key buildings in the city centre. The THI scheme will focus on buildings in the Cultural Industries Quarter whereas the HERS scheme covers Metal Trades buildings in city centre conservation areas.
Already £276,000 has been secured from English Heritage over three years for Sheffield's Metal Trades buildings. A fund of £3,926,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Objective One, Regeneration monies, the Local Transport Plan and Section 106 is going into the Townscape Heritage Initiative.
The Council and the CIQ Agency will be attracting developers to renovate and restore these buildings to become homes to new businesses.
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