Shrewsbury flax mill fails in Heritage Lottery Funding bid
A bid for cash from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help regenerate the historic Shrewsbury’s historic Flax Mill has been rejected it was revealed today.
The flax mill in the Ditherington missed out on around £12 million pounds worth of funding.
It’s hoped that the development of the historic Flax Mill site would provide employment, housing, social and leisure opportunities.
Artists’ impressions, submitted alongside the planning application to Shropshire Council last August, show how existing buildings would be upgraded and brought back into use for commercial, educational, office or leisure use, and how new homes and other buildings would be built on the land where the Arriva bus depot, Midland Red social club and former Salop Glass building currently stand.
Shropshire Council, English Heritage and the Homes and Communities Agency are currently working together on the Flax Mill development project.
Around £17 million is required to regenerate the building and its surrounding area.
