Renewal Area Community Projects
Since the Cliftonville West Renewal Area was established in May
2005, the team have allocated grants to a number of community
projects including
- Lighting of St Paul’s Church
- Hanging basket trees in Northdown Road
- Dalby Square Project
- Maintenance work at Trinity Memorial Gardens
- Screening for the recycling bins in Trinity Square
- A number of Alleygating projects
- A street cleaning scheme with the help of the Waste &
Recycling team and Hang 10
- Newgate Gap Art Project working with local childen.
- Northdown Road decorative lighting
- The upgrade of streetlighting in Cliftonville West Area to
improve lighting
- Eurobns in Ethelbert Road, Athelstan Road and Dalby
Square.
Renewal Manager Carla Wenham-Jones said: “
These projects were suggested to us by the local community as ways
of improving the appearance of the area. The work of the Renewal
Area team is very much led by local people. We’re here to deliver
improvements in Cliftonville West, but we need to ensure that those
improvements are exactly what residents want. That’s why our team
spends so much time meeting with local people and discussing their
vision for the area, so that we can then deliver it. These schemes
are another excellent example of that
process.”
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Renewal Area Grant projects
More than £350,000 worth of
Renewal Area Grants has been given to the property owners in
Cliftonville West to improve the appearance and standard of their
property.
Homeowners applied for Renewal Area
Grants of up to £2,000 for projects like repainting the exterior of
their property, repairing windows or front garden walls, or crime
prevention measures. Owners put in additional money, where
required, and to date homeowners have put in nearly £340,000 of
their own money towards the work they have carried out.
Cllr. Zita Wiltshire, Cabinet Member for
Housing, said: “The Renewal Area has helped to significantly
improve people’s lives in Cliftonville West and that’s why we were
keen to expand it to other parts of Margate Central and
Cliftonville West that suffer from similar deprivation problems.
The response from people living in those areas has been
overwhelmingly positive and, as a result of their feedback, we will
be doing more work to help clean up and improve these areas. That’s
their number one priority and that’s what we’ll be addressing.
Already our operation in Cliftonville West in the existing Renewal
Area has been a huge success and we will be looking at how we can
extend that work into these areas in the future.”
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