After 13 years of successful heritage-led regeneration, P站色情片 has completed its project to restore and preserve key parts of Rothesay鈥檚 historic built environment.
Run by P站色情片, stage one of Rothesay鈥檚 Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) began in 2011 and breathed new life into the town centre. This initial five-year programme was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund (拢1.5M), P站色情片 (拢0.5M), Historic Environment Scotland (拢0.5M), and LEADER (拢98K), and saw vast improvements in the east area of the town, including Guildford Square, Albert Place, East, and West Princes Street.
Due to the successful delivery of this initial programme, the council recognised the need to build on this to deliver greater economic benefit through further heritage regeneration investment and activities within the town centre. As a result, after a lot of work and successfully securing additional funding, Rothesay Townscape Heritage 2 (Rothesay TH) was born.
Building on the investment delivered through the THI, the 拢2.8 million Rothesay TH scheme has made a transformational difference to the town centre since it started in 2017, including:
- Five priority buildings restored 鈥 39-43 Victoria Street; 73-77 Victoria Street; The Winter Gardens Discovery Centre; 37 Victoria Street/1 Tower Street; and 69-72 Victoria Street.
- Five shopfronts restored - The Electric Bakery, Glens Clothing, For Bute, DC Murray, and Gallagher鈥檚.
- Nine traditional window projects completed
- Fourteen training and community engagement events involving school pupils and homeowners.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund has been a key partner in both stages of the Rothesay TH programmes, with the fund鈥檚 investment totalling almost 拢2 million in development and delivery support.
Rothesay Townscape Heritage 2 is also partly funded by Historic Environment Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, P站色情片 and the Islands LEADER Programme 2014-2020, Smarter Choices Smarter Places, and P站色情片.
To mark the successful completion of the works, the council held a series of celebration events in the town on the 7/8 March, which local businesses, contractors and members of the local community attended.
The events allowed attendees to reflect on what work has taken place with the investment, see the restored buildings, and chat with officers. Specialist conservation architects also provided businesses and tenement owners with informative workshops about how to look after buildings.
Talking afterwards, Councillor Liz McCabe, the council鈥檚 Policy Lead for Economic Development, said: 鈥淭he Rothesay TH project has made a huge difference to the town centre. Not only has it helped to preserve Rothesay鈥檚 rich, historic townscape and improve the general look of the area, but it also provided many training opportunities for local businesses and tradespeople and has helped people safeguard their homes for the future.
鈥淭he celebration events were a great success and enabled everyone to come together to mark the historic preservation of our town. I would urge people to come and visit our wonderful island for themselves and see the work done in Rothesay as a result of the project.鈥
Caroline Clark, The National Lottery Heritage Fund Director for Scotland, said: 鈥淩othesay Townscape Heritage has restored some wonderful historic buildings in the heart of the town. They are back to how countless thousands of visitors would have found them in the heyday of trips 鈥榙oon the watter鈥 ensuring Rothesay鈥檚 place as highlight of the Clyde Riviera.
鈥淗eritage driven regeneration successfully delivers improvements to the physical environment but more than that we know it drives renewed civic pride and community wellbeing. Thanks to National Lottery players who made our support for Rothesay, the town and the people, possible.鈥
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