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Title: Swindon's Railway Village gets a boost as a Heritage Action Zone Post by: grahame on June 06, 2019, 20:24:25 From This is Wiltshire (https://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/17689401.swindons-historic-railway-village-gets-a-boost-as-it-is-made-a-heritage-action-zone/)
Quote Railway Village, which was last year voted the country's favourite conservation area, is getting a boost today Swindon Borough Council and Historic England are, at this moment, formally launching launched a Heritage Action Zone to protect and revitalise Railway Village, an area of Victorian housing and institutional buildings centred around the railway station and lines. The five-year scheme will bring heritage expertise and £1.6 million of funding from Historic England, who will work with the council and other partners to revitalise ... Positive comment from the Mechanics Institution Trust later in the article, but no indication that the Institute is within scope This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |