Gold Street in Northampton set for £350,000 facelift after round of shop grants are approved
Northampton Borough Council has now committed more than £50,000 towards improvements in Gold Street as part of its Business incentive Scheme.
Landlords who took up the authority’s offer for financial help to do up their shop have contributed a further £300,000 of their own money towards refurbishing building fronts, replacing windows and replacing damaged woodwork. Some have completed the work already.
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Hide AdCabinet Member for Regeneration, Enterprise and Planning, Councillor Tim Hadland, said: “We were determined to give this gateway area of the town centre a facelift and it has been very pleasing to see both landlords and businesses demonstrating their investment in the area.”
Chris Kent, who owns record store Spunout, received £5,000 from the scheme, which has already been spent replacing the front door and removing tired wood a the front of the shop.
He said: “We had wanted to get things freshened up on he outside for some time now; we had a change around inside and thought it was time to redo the outside too.
“So the money meant we could do a bit more than your standard paint job.”
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Hide AdIn the Chronicle and Echo’s yearly high street survey last year Gold Street had 11 vacant units out of 62, one of the better performing town centre streets.
The programme involves the following eight Gold Street buildings:
10 Gold Street
Building front enhancement – in planning
19 Gold Street
Shop front enhancement - completed
25 Gold Street
Building front refurbishment and renovation
30 Gold Street
Three flats on upper level, general refurbishment
42 Gold Street
Renovation of heritage windows and stonework
48 Gold Street
Major refit, two flats on upper level, separate entrances to shops/flats and change shop front
57 Gold Street
Shop front enhancement - completed
60 Gold Street
Shop front enhancement – in planning