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Looe Regeneration Partnership
This partnership was set up in 2003 in an effort to generate interest in the town and regenerate the business and tourism industries within the local areas, including our neighbouring parishes.
The Partnership comprised of those members who made a financial contribution to the regeneration Report which was commissioned through ARUP, and known as the Looe Waterfront Regeneration Scheme.
Partners in the scheme were the Looe Town Council, Looe Harbour Commissioners, East Looe Town Trust, West Looe Town Trust, Officers from Caradon District Council, English Heritage, SW Regional Development Agency and Objective One.
The scheme looked at the waterfront areas of Looe from Polean through the Millpool, along the river frontage to the seafront and back up through the main streets of both East and West Looe.
The very comprehensive report produced evidence of need and requirements within the town environs that could be used in funding applications, and in this it was very successful.
Certainly the Harbour Commission were able to use the evidence to gain considerable funding for schemes within the harbour area, including the new storage and workshop facility recently completely on the quayside of East Looe, and a partial raising of the quay wall in the same vicinity.
East Looe Town Trust were also able to justify funding for the refurbishment of the East Looe Sea Front, which has seen repaving, new seating areas and flower beds and has enhanced the area considerably.
However, the main core work was within the townscape which has seen several buildings refurbished, the Old Lifeboat House on the seafront given a new lease of life, the Guildhall have its roof and large lantern renewed and the street scene vastly improved by the judicious and proper application of the funds available. This work is ongoing still, but coming to a close as the funds expire, with still a couple of buildings to be completed and some remedial works within the streetscape to be looked at.
This has been a fantastic scheme and so successful that the Regeneration Partnership, now expanded to include the Looe Development Trust, will continue in its work to improve the town and the area in a hope that we can attract meaningful job creation schemes to the town.
The Mayor extends his congratulations to all involved, a lot of hard work and many hours of worry has gone into this scheme and the results are outstanding.
August 2008
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