Limerick City and County Council has received funding of approximately €200,000 under THRIVE – the Town Centre First Heritage Revival Scheme – Strand 1 for the King’s Island Area of Limerick City.
THRIVE is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Funding for this project will be to support the following activities:
- Enhancement of an existing Integrated Urban Strategy – The King’s Island Walled Town Frameworks.
- Identification of projects that promote the conservation and adaptive reuse of our built heritage stock while reducing vacancy and dereliction in town centres.
- Prioritisation, development and specification of project proposals to create a pipeline of investment-ready built heritage refurbishment, renovation and adaptive reuse projects, bringing one of them to a stage of readiness where it can be included in a THRIVE Strand 2 application.
THRIVE promotes a citizen-centred community-led approach to planning and design. It embraces the core values of the New European Bauhaus – sustainability, aesthetics, and inclusion.
Citizen/stakeholder engagement is at the heart of this project and a number of multi-disciplinary engagement events and co-design sessions will be held over the coming months to ensure the project is citizen-centred and community led.
THRIVE – Strand 2 funding will provide local authorities with funding of between €2m and €7m to renovate, refurbish and adapt vacant and derelict heritage buildings in their town centres. Heritage buildings under the scheme are classified as structures that form part of the architectural heritage and/or Protected Structures or proposed Protected Structures.
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