€30,000 to revitalise Roscrea's town centre
Cahill welcomes announcement
Fianna Fáil Tipperary TD Jackie Cahill has welcomed up to €30,000 in Government funding to develop Roscrea town centre.
The investment under the Town Centre First (TCF) Plans was announced as part of a €4.5 million package to support rural towns and villages by Minister Heather Humphreys.
Deputy Cahill said: “I’m pleased to see Roscrea earmarked to receive up to €30,000 for the first phase of the Town Centre First Plan. It will be crucial to the revitalisation of Roscrea town and will help the community generate investment and tackle issues such as vacancy and dereliction.”
He added: “This investment is about giving local people the tools they need to improve their town and make it a more attractive place in which to live, work, visit and invest.”
The new measures follow on from the launch of the Government’s first ever Town Centre First Policy in 2022.This has seen the development of specific Town Centre First Plans in 2,026 towns nationwide.
Town Centre First contains 33 unique actions which will give our towns the tools and resources they need to become more viable and attractive places in which to live, work, visit and run a business. Town Regeneration Officers in all relevant local authority areas are being funded by the department to drive forward Town Centre First on a local level.
The establishment of the National Town Centre First Implementation Office is key to the success of the policy. The office supports Town Regeneration Officers (TRO) in driving implementation at a local level, capturing best practices and co-ordinating stakeholder engagement.
NEW PACKAGE OF SUPPORTS
The new package of supports will support the following measures:
- Town Team Support Fund: Funding of up to €10,000 each for three towns in each eligible local authority area to support the establishment and/or development of town teams where they are not already well established.
- Town Centre First Plan: Funding of €30,000 in each eligible local authority area to support the development of a TCF plan in a rural town.
- Project Development Measure: This measure will assist local authorities to contribute to a pipeline of significant, well developed projects by providing funding of €50,000 each to support two projects with an additional third €50,000 application available for the counties in the North West Region. This support will be delivered under the umbrella of the Town and Village Renewal Scheme. These supports will specifically target rural towns with a population of under 10,000 people.