What have we done so far
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 can apply 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 £160,000 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.”
Renewal Area Grant projects
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