THE BORDERLANDS ASK: £5 MILLION BID

EventSpace

Dick's Hill

Hub

Take the East Pier into community ownership. Revitalise the site as a unique EventSpace with rail access straight onto the seaside site. Provide infrastructure to support and attract events. Create promenade, piazza and open space for walking, cycling, learn-to-cycle park.

Community Asset Transfer of vacant building in Dick's Hill to grow skills and confidence to support local people into work. Shared community tenancy with HomeStart, Food Futures Lab, Allotments, Health and Wellbeing partners, Community Radio, Royal British Legion, Apex Reablement and more.

Sanctuary Outdoor

Nursery

The Sanctuary grows children, skills, green-blue life, community. The Nursery supports locals to work by providing childcare. Dumfries & Galloway College provide training qualifications in childcare. Sanctuary nursery provide placements, work experience and jobs in childcare... and delight for children. Learning in line with Curriculum for Excellence.

The Big

Makeover

Transform town centre facades and public realm. Supplement the town’s Shopfront Improvement Scheme to support the town’s independent shops with colourful paint schemes and awnings over shops; apply decorative vinyls to windows of vacant buildings; commission murals for gap sites and buildings; remove weeds from roofs and facades. Improve wayfinding. Make derelict properties safe. Improve arterial routes into town centre.

Revive:

Town Centre

Living

Redesign the town centre for mixed use: housing, business and leisure, including ‘meantime opportunities’ for creatives and entrepreneurs in vacant properties. Audit vacant and derelict land and properties. Work with landlords, agents and developers to create opportunities to model change and reanimate the town centre.

Wet Weather

Escapes

Develop a community-managed wet-weather family leisure offer, eg 10-pin bowling alley/laser tag. Safeguard and upgrade existing leisure venues, infrastructure and facilities including the new Creative Hub trailing the way for the George Hotel. Offer local trades work, placements and skills building to enable long term unemployed to get into work.

Grow events economy. Grow local work opportunities.

Attract visitors. Improve visitor experience.

Develop opportunities for growing the economy.

Upskill local people for work.

Share resources. Build community. Maximise potential.

Provide childcare to release people for work.

Provide training and skills for work. Provide local employment. Grow children's skills and confidence.

Improve environment. Improve visitor experience. Make vacant shops attractive to businesss. Grow entrepreneurship.

Develop housing. Bring footfall into town centre. Attract new business. Grow a culture of enterprise. Grow economy.

Empowerment and skills development for disadvantaged and long-term unemployed. Develop the visitor offer. Attract day visitors. Bring jobs to locals. Grow economy.

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(£ 1,200,000) (£ 5,000,000)

Negotiate with Stena. Apply for Community Asset Transfer. Feasibility study options appraisal.

Dumfries & Galloway Council, Stranraer Development Trust, Stenaline, Crown Estates

Support Community Asset Transfer. Seed fund building transformation.

Dumfries & Galloway Council, Stranraer

Trust, HomeStart, community partners

Develop plans for nursery within Black Stank scheme.

Dumfries & Galloway Council, SEPA, Dumfries & Galloway College

Audit. Scope action. Engage with agents/owners. Promote opportunities. Programme and deliver change.

Dumfries & Galloway Council, Stranraer Development Trust, Local Business Sector, social housing agencies

Audit town centre property. Engage with agents and landlords. Develop scheme for change. Programme and deliver change.

Cost appraisal and business modelling. Audit venues. Plan and deliver enhancements to existing leisure infrastracture.

Dumfries & Galloway Council, Stranraer Development Trust, Local Business Sector

Dumfries & Galloway Council, Millennium Centre, Ryan Centre

Galloway Council

3: Play

5: Destination Stranraer