£2m Lottery cash bid to boost Yorkshire Dales (From The Westmorland Gazette)
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£2m Lottery cash bid to boost Yorkshire Dales
10:30am Wednesday 4th January 2012 in Yorkshire Dales news
A BID has been launched to secure up to £2 million in funding for a major landscape and heritage conservation project in the Yorkshire Dales.
Clapham’s Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) wants to hear thoughts and ideas as it develops a cash bid for a planned ‘Craven Dales Landscape Partnership’ prog-ramme.
It aims to establish land-scape conservation initiatives to bring benefits to the area – including environment imp-rovements such as conifer plantations and the creation of more woods, hay meadows and peat bogs.
Visitor facilities such as car parks and pedestrian routes could also be updated, while project officers aim to conduct surveys of historic buildings and set up interpretation and viewing points.
The trust – a registered charity – is working with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to win funding for the programme from the Heritage Lottery Fund‘s Landscape Partnership scheme and has until the end of February to prepare its bid.
It is holding a public meeting at Clapham Village Hall on Wednesday, January 11, from 2pm to 7pm to involve local people in developing ideas.
Dave Tayler, deputy director at YDMT, said: “Essential to this exciting new project is having a strong involvement from local organisations, communities and individuals.
“We’re looking for people to help us identify and deliver projects that will make a real difference.
“This involvement from individuals and our partner organisations will be invaluable in ensuring that this project brings the maximum benefit to the Dales - people and place.”
If the ‘first stage’ bid is successful, details of the prog-ramme would be developed and submitted in 2012 by YDMT, with the project set to run from 2013 to 2018.
Areas to be covered under the project would be Ingleborough, Ribblehead, Chapel-le-Dale, Kingsdale, Clapdale, Crummack Dale and mid to upper Ribblesdale.
