ARGOS Sinks?

ARGOS Sinks?

• an “In My View” article by NIGEL WARD, reporting on the likely demise of the ARGOS project.
  

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If a report in yesterday’s Guardian can be relied upon (which is not necessarily a given), it would appear that SBC Leader Councillor Steve SIDDONS will be lamenting the sinking of his ‘flagship’ project, the demolition of the former ARGOS building to make way for 210 accommodation ‘boxes’ for Coventry University students and NHS student nurses.

The Rt.Hon. Robert JENRICK, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities & Local Government, has announced a list totalling 72 towns to receive grant funding of up to £25 Million from the Future High Streets Fund (FHSF).

Scarborough is not one of them.

The announcement thus nullifies the raison d’être of the ARGOS project even before the Planning Committee has an opportunity to consign it to its rightful destination – the trash can.

1. Tamworth £21,652,555
2. Sunderland £25,000,000
3. Sutton £11,346,704
4. Bishop Auckland £19,856,853
5. Blyth £11,121,059
6. Kidderminster £20,510,598
7. Old Kent Road, Southwark £9,605,854
8. Swindon £25,000,000
9. Stockport £14,500,000
10. Winsford £9,980,000
11. Sheffield £15,817,001
12. Blackfriars, Worcester £17,939,000
13. Birkenhead £24,581,011
14. Brierley Hill £9,985,689
15. Stretford £17,605,674

A further 57 places will receive provisional funding offers:

1. Leamington Spa £10,015,121
2. Nuneaton £13,362,736
3. Wolverhampton £15,760,196
4. Walsall £11,439,967
5. Newcastle-under-Lyme £11,048,260
6. Stafford £14,377,723
7. Tottenham £10,019,648
8. Woolwich £17,150,964
9. Wealdstone £7,448,583
10. Putney £1,058,706
11. Elland £6,310,812
12. Northallerton £6,085,013
13. Rotherham £12,660,708
14. Halifax £11,762,823
15. Barnsley £15,624,456
16. Scunthorpe £10,675,323
17. New Ferry, Wirral – £3,213,523
18. Wigan £16,633,691
19. Crewe £14,148,128
20. Rochdale £17,080,458
21. Farnworth, Bolton £13,306,817
22. Oldham £10,750,237
23. Kirkham, Fylde – £6,290,831
24. Maryport, Allerdale – £11,527,839
25. Carlisle £9,129,874
26. Plymouth £12,046,873
27. Barnstable £6,548,876
28. Newton Abbot £9,199,364
29. Paignton £13,363,248
30. Kingswood £12,555,464
31. Salisbury £9,355,731
32. Penzance £10,403, 112
33. Trowbridge £16,347,056
34. Yeovil £9,756,897
35. Taunton £13,962,981
36. Loftus £5,833,628
37. Middlesbrough £14,170,352
38. Stockton £16,543,812
39. South Shields £5,959,187
40. Derby, St Peters Cross £15,034,398
41. Sutton-in-Ashfield £6,279,872
42. Grantham £5,558,818
43. Grimsby £17,280,917
44. Nottingham, West End Point £12,523,981
45. Heanor £8,592,837
46. Northampton £8,442,730
47. Buxton £6,608,223
48. Dover £3,202,226
49. Newhaven £5,004,939
50. Chatham £9,497,720
51. Ramsgate £2,704,213
52. Commercial Road, Portsmouth £3,122,375
53. Fratton, Portsmouth £3,858,489
54. High Wycombe £11,886,876
55. St Neots £3,748,815
56. March, Fenland £6,447,129
57. Great Yarmouth £13,774,430