Walsall Conservation Area Partnership

This was a partnership scheme with English Heritage, started in 1998, with a total of £310,000 in grants available over a three year period. The aims of the scheme were to compliment the regeneration work already started within the town centre, including Town Wharf Phase 1.

The scheme was based around two of the central town-centre Conservation Areas (Bridge Street and Lichfield Street), where there is a high percentage of Listed Buildings, and aimed to repair several of the high profile buildings within these two Conservation Areas.

The success of this scheme, and other work, has resulted in the repair to several of the main focal buildings within the town centre, including 1-11 Bridge Street, where large structural works assisted in preventing the rear stair tower from falling down, and repaired the damaged parapet gutter to the front elevation. Other buildings to have received grants from the CAP are 138 Lichfield Street, 144-147 Lichfield Street and Leicester Buildings, forming the entrance to the Old Square shopping centre.

This scheme has now finished, and no grants from this source of funding are available for this area now.