{"id":1375,"date":"2010-06-09T16:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2010-06-09T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T16:27:44","slug":"cash-for-scots-rail-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Cash for Scots rail stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Several of Scotland\u2019s rail stations have netted \u00a3168,000 to share in an effort to breathe new life into the facilities, it has been announced.<\/div>\n<p>Five projects have received funding from the Station Community Regeneration Fund \u2013 a \u00a31m pot of money to help create new businesses and premises for local projects.<\/p>\n<p>Those projects include \u00a337k for a heritage centre at Cupar, \u00a340k for a charity shop at Kilmarnock and \u00a359.5k towards headquarters for New Scottish Arts at Dundee.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Minister Stewart Stevenson said: &#8220;The Stations Community Regeneration Fund is an excellent example of how communities are benefitting from the ScotRail Franchise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By re-investing in the station environment and bringing redundant buildings back to life, we are opening up new employment opportunities while communities benefit through the creation of new local facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Launched a year ago, funding is available from Transport Scotland to contribute towards the costs of structural repairs and to match-fund up to 50 per cent of the costs of fitting out station premises for their intended use.<\/p>\n<p>ScotRail managing director Steve Montgomery said: &#8220;We welcome these successful applications which open up new possibilities across Scotland and underpin our commitment to put stations at the heart of communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Public Service News:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicservice.co.uk\/news_story.asp?id=13110\"><strong>LINK<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several of Scotland\u2019s rail stations have netted \u00a3168,000 to share in an effort to breathe new life into the facilities, it has been announced. Five projects have received funding from the Station Community Regeneration Fund \u2013 a \u00a31m pot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=1375\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}