Market Towns Programme
Market Towns Initiative – Stourport and Bewdley
The Market Towns Initiative is a programme run by Advantage West
Midlands (AWM) that provides financial support towards projects
that help support the viability and prosperity of towns for the
benefit of towns people and their rural hinterland.
A total of £11 million has been committed to breathe new life
into 20 market towns across the West Midlands. Regeneration
activity has included the provision of business space, leisure and
tourism facilities upgraded and improvements made to the physical
environment. To date, the initiative has supported over 370
businesses and leveraged millions of pounds of private sector
investment into the market towns.
Both Stourport-on-Severn and Bewdley are classed as Market Towns
under this programme and therefore qualify for funding. The
initiative has led to the creation of the Stourport
Forward and Bewdley
Development Trust partnerships created to manage the funding
received from AWM.
Stourport Regeneration
Wyre Forest District Council have produced a document that
presents an overview of the work done to transform Stourport to
make it a successful and vibrant place to live and work and to also
tap into the growing heritage tourism market. It brings together
the many regeneration projects, schemes and briefs that have been
produced and implemented over the years regarding the town.
The document charts the projects that have taken place since
Pieda plc were appointed in 1995 by the Council and British
Waterways to produce a regeneration strategy for Stourport.
Click here to
read the ‘The Regeneration of Stourport: An update on key
projects’. 
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