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BBC News
03-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Grants to bring empty Oswestry town centre shops back into use
Businesses looking to set up in premises vacant for more than six months could get a grant of up to £5, money could be used to refurbish and fit out sites, as well as for signage and improving accessibility, said Oswestry Town Council, which added 11% of the town centre's shops were classed as is accepting applications until the end of next month from businesses and Oswestry had fewer empty retail premises than most towns, the council would like to see vacant shops relet, it said. Empty retail units and the condition of retail properties "are seen as important indicators of the health of a high street and are a problem nationally", the authority amount of money available for the scheme overall is £25,000 and there will be a second bidding round in the autumn for any funding not allocated in the summer grants of up to £5,000 have been made available thanks to the council's Breathing New Life into Empty Properties initiative and money must be spent by the end of March next mayor of Oswestry, Rosie Radford, said: "We're keen to continue to support businesses and start-ups at a very local level." Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
23-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Merchant's house restoration project gets lottery boost
A Grade I listed building has been given £479,972 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to support a restoration 15th Century Llwyd Mansion in Oswestry, Shropshire, a former merchants house has been placed on Historic England's Heritage at risk town council, which owns the building, said it will use the cash to pay for surveys and urgent structural repairs before applying for a full grant of £2,870,665 building had been restored in the 1800s and used by a series of businesses until 2022. But structural alterations and repairs compounded by lack of care over many years had left the building in a dilapidated state, the council said. A plan for its future use is likely to involve community and commercial spaces on the lower floors and holiday let accommodation on upper floors, it added. Town mayor Rosie Radford said she was "absolutely thrilled to have secured this funding".The council hoped to have the work complete and the building fully open by the end of 2029. Follow BBC Shropshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
