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Building a Better Scotland - Infrastructure Investment Plan: Investing in the Future of Scotland
Appendix B: Cities Growth Fund - Plans from 2003 - 2006
Funding under the Cities Growth Fund for 2003-06 amounts to £90m. An additional £41m for 2006-07 and £42m for 2007-08 will maintain the momentum created at the launch of the Fund and will bring the total invested in City-Region infrastructure over the five years 2003-08 to £173m.
The main City-Vision projects for the 2003-06 funding round are as follows:
Aberdeen will receive £11.5m to support its City-Vision, which focuses on diversification, international competitiveness, skills, infrastructure and cultural assets. Projects include £1.5m for a new Energy Futures Centre and renewables development, £1.5m for urban public realm improvements, £1.6m for a development company, £1.5m for sports development and £1m for an arts fund. Further information on Aberdeen's City-Vision is available on the Council's website.
Dundee's City-Vision centres on the need to address population decline and attract new talent. The fund of £9.3m will be wholly invested in re-connecting the city with a regenerated waterfront, taking advantage of one of the best estuary settings in Europe. Dundee's City-Vision is shown on the Council's website.
Edinburgh will receive £24.2m to focus on transport, education, housing and enhancing the city centre. This includes £6m for the City Centre public realm investment, to enhance the capital's unique urban environment, £3.8m for bus information and service improvements, £1m for Hermiston Gait park and ride and £3m for affordable housing. Edinburgh's City-Vision also promotes the city's world-class festival and theatre culture (e.g. renovation of the Usher Hall). Edinburgh's City-Vision is available on the Council's website.
Glasgow's City-Vision - Metropolitan Glasgow - is being taken forward by the Clyde Valley Community Planning Partnership: the emphasis is on community regeneration and improving employability. Funding of £40.1m includes £20m allocated to key regenerator projects such as the regeneration of the River Clyde, the Clyde Gateway and the Forth and Clyde Canal. £9.7m will expand Glasgow's Schools Vocational Training Programme to all eight local authorities in the City-Region, enabling a target of 4,000 third and fourth year secondary pupils to progress through the construction, hospitality, sport and leisure, and administration programmes over the next three years, with an estimated 75% securing employment. £6.5m is to be spent on new factory/workshop, training and business centre developments in disadvantaged areas such as Drumchapel, Easterhouse, Springburn, Govan, East End and Maryhill. Glasgow's City-Vision, Metropolitan Glasgow, may be accessed on the Glasgow Economic Facts website.
Inverness will receive £3.1m. City-Vision projects include £500,000 for streetscape improvements in the city centre, £500,000 to enhance the historic riverside and castle area, £500,000 for a 'Wired City' ICT initiative and a £100,000 Commuter Rail Services project. Inverness' City-Vision is available on the Council's website.
Stirling will receive £1.9m with a strong focus on sustainability, health and inclusion. This includes £630,000 for a major streetscape project to revitalise the city centre, £365,000 for sustainable office space in Forthside, £445,000 on routes and linkages, £255,000 on City gateways and £50,000 on castle area improvements. Further details of Stirling's Community Planning Partnership are on the Council's website.
Some re-allocation of funds is possible within each city's set of Cities Growth Fund projects. The flexibility in the design of the Fund is intended to take into account the possibility of delays in infrastructure developments and interaction with other capital projects being taken forward by Community Planning partners in each City-Region.
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