At its meeting on Friday, Tendring Council’s cabinet agreed to sign agreements with the Government to accept £6.7million for a project in Dovercourt, and draw down £250,000 from its own £2.1million match-funding budget to begin preparation works.
The £9million scheme in Dovercourt, which has money from the government’s Capital Regeneration Projects fund as well as Tendring Council and Essex County Council consists of three smaller projects. These are refurbishment of the town’s library to bring Adult Community Learning back into the town centre, demolition of Milton Road car park and building of new homes, and improvements to the street scene in and around the town centre.

The cabinet also endorsed the existing Levelling Up Fund project in Clacton, a £30million scheme to deliver a new civic…