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Tories push town regeneration fund Print E-mail
Friday, 20 April 2007

A £20m Town Centre Regeneration Fund to help rebuild run down town and village centres is among proposals announced today by Scottish Conservative Leader Annabel Goldie.

Goldie said the proposals would help boost Scotland’s struggling towns, as well as contribute to the nation’s prosperity as a whole. She said: “Town centres like Barrhead have been run down by the Lib-Lab Pact. We need to fix them, and build them back up, because town and village centres are the lifeblood of local communities in Scotland.

“In addition to our proposals to abolish business rates for most small businesses in Scotland, we will establish a Town Centre Regeneration Fund, worth £20m every year. In order to benefit, towns would decide on a regeneration project and apply directly to the Scottish Executive for consideration. This will provide a timely boost not only to struggling Scottish towns, but to the nation’s prosperity as a whole."

However, Liberal Democrat election director Tavish Scott said the proposed fund will ‘never see the light of day.’ He said: “Once again the Tories are hitting the campaign trail with a package of policies that will never see the light of day. By ruling out going into Government after the election the Tories have effectively consigned their manifesto to the bin.

“They will never introduce this town centre regeneration fund in Scotland. The Tories are an irrelevance.”
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