Bridge Cottage restoration costs
Works to turn historic Bridge Cottage, Uckfield, into a ‘viable community asset’ will cost in the region of £700,000 to £750,000 a meeting of the town council was told last week.
Cllr Mick Harker, who chairs the council’s general purposes committee and is a director of the Uckfield Preservation Society, which holds the lease of the cottage, told fellow councillors it was essential that the freehold of the sweet shop at one end of the building was acquired as part of the scheme.
He said the Heritage Lottery Fund and other grant-giving bodies had been approached and were sympathetic to plans which would allow greater public access and better restoration of the cottage.
He stressed this was a unique opportunity which, if not taken, could see the building deteriorate to a point where costs would escalate and funding for renovation would not be available.
After making his presentation Cllr Harker left the council meeting while the rest of the committee considered, in private, the purchase of the sweet shop.
See also:
Bid to give Bridge Cottage, Uckfield, a viable future
Bridge Cottage could become a wedding venue
(Added to site Wednesday, November 5th, 2008)
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