Funds are being made available for the redevelopment of disused pubs as part of the Government\u2019s programme to revitalise high streets. Historic England will receive \u00a344 million to develop \u2018high streets\u2019 heritage action zones\u2019, the Architectural Heritage Fund will receive \u00a315 million to make disused pubs available to social enterprise organisations and the National Lottery Heritage Fund will spend \u00a33 million on a cultural outreach project to engage communities in the history of their high streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Historic England project will also include such buildings as former theatres and libraries as well as pubs. Inevitably, some pubs are going to be converted to offices or housing. Tom Stainer, CAMRA\u2019s chief executive, told the Morning Advertiser that it was important pubs were kept as pubs when considered by the schemes, \u201cWe are delighted to see greater Government support allocated to our high streets. Pubs play a vital role in boosting trade and keeping high streets thriving and we would like to see them benefit from this funding as well. Most importantly, we would like to see measures to ensure the funding is used to bring pubs back to life rather than converted to another use. Pubs play an incredibly important role in our nation\u2019s heritage and make up the very fabric of our nation\u2019s history. Their ongoing preservation and protection is key to any initiative to support historic high streets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a not dissimilar move, the Plunkett Foundation is relaunching its \u2018More Than a Pub\u2019 programme. This will make a further \u00a32.2 million available to communities seeking control of their local pubs. The funding comes from Power to Change and builds on the success of the original programme which helped 28 community-owned pubs open between 2016 and 2019. The programmes aims to offer a flexible range of support services to community groups, including an advice line, events, training, workshops, peer-to-peer study visits and business development advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Power to Change\u2019s chief executive, Vidhya Alakeson, commented, \u201cPubs are often the last hub in their community. They are important places where people come together and they provide a diversity of services, including lunch clubs for vulnerable people, training and development, gardening and cooking classes and parenting groups.\u201d The Plunkett Foundation\u2019s executive director, James Alcock, added, \u201cFor many communities, pubs are not just a place to drink; they are central to people\u2019s sense of place and identity, they provide an important place for people to meet and help to build community cohesion. Funds are being made available for the redevelopment of disused pubs as part of the Government\u2019s programme to revitalise high streets. Historic England will receive \u00a344 million to develop \u2018high… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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