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Local Area CommitteeCarlisle Future High Street FundJuly 2020Local Area C
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Themes / Objectives1. Renewing Carlisle City Centre as a place to live
and work2. Reactivating Carlisle’s historic quarter3. Catalysing Carlisle leisure economy
Projects• 6 - 24 Castle Street• Hoopers• Central Plaza• Market Square• Devonshire Street• Caldew Riverside
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Renewing Carlisle city centre as a place to live andwork• Reimagining Market Square as Carlisle's events
space• Preparing Caldew Riverside site for residential
development
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mittee
Market Square - £2.7mCreation of a event space, focal point for the citycentre and gateway to historic quarter
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Caldew Riverside - £1.3mRemediation to bring the site back into the land supplyand prepare for residential development
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Reenergising Carlisle’s Historic Quarter• Securing redevelopment for Hooper's Department
Store• Repurposing 6-24 Castle Street
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Hoopers - £500,000Gap funding to improve the viability of a strategy-ledrepurposing scheme and to accelerate delivery.
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6 - 24 Castle Street – £3.5mRepurpose the buildings for creative and digital sector
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Making Carlisle a destination - catalysing the citycentre leisure economy
• Preparing Central Plaza site for redevelopment• Pedestrian enhancement of Devonshire Street
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Central Plaza - £6.5mGap funding to close viability gap and deliver a hotelredevelopment
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Devonshire Street - £1mImproved environmental quality and pedestrianprioritisation
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Future High Street Fund Update• Provisional ask £15.5m• VFM / BCR – high value for money• Responding to feedback from MHCLG
– Outputs / outcomes– Evidence demand for projects– Challenges presented by COVID-19 and incorporating
recovery into the strategic narrative
• Detailed conversations with County Councilcolleagues regarding management / delivery ofprojects that impact on the highway and CuCCassets.
Joint Mem
ber Advisory Group