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Originally Posted by park381
So are you saying that if the Panopticans don't go ahead the remade funds will not be forthcoming, to regenerate the areas identified?
Well it would appear that way. We are finding it very easy to get funds as part of this wider agenda. I don't think there is an agency that has recently approached the Friends of Arden Hall for eg.
The regional park will have a maintenance budget but I have yet to see exactly how all this pan out. There is also the issue of English Nature and it being a Local Nature Reserve, possibly managed by them.
Another question, from the remade business plan, the on costs for maintaining these projects on completion are a little high. What happens to them if grants, funds were withdrawn, as you know they can be, is HBC to be faced with the maintenance cost, hence the people of hyndburn?
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Kind of the above answer. We need to be in at the sharp end of the Regional Park and fighting for as much centrepiece funding as possible. We are not and also we are in danger of being left out somewhat. I know Nick Hunt from Mid Pennine sees the coppice as a centrepiece.