Market Town Regeneration in North Shropshire

North Shropshire Economic Forum

North Shropshire District Council has been working with partners including Advantage West Midlands to establish a district wide Economic Forum to help support economic growth and prosperity across the district as a whole. The Forum is a business network that is currently working up priorities and developing projects that will address economic issues across North Shropshire.  Click here for more information.

Market Town Programme

The District Council has supported economic regeneration programmes in each of the market towns and their surrounding rural parishes.

Each of the market towns has developed an Action Plan that has benefited from funding from Advantage West Midlands, the regional development agency. The Programme has helped to deliver many economic regeneration projects across the district which have created jobs and businesses, supported business growth and provided new and improved community services and facilities.

Ellesmere

The Ellesmere Market Town Programme started in 2005 and is due to be completed in March 2009.  There are a number of projects in the Programme, that have already brought many benefits to the town.

For more information, please see the attached document, or contact: Trish Grantham, Programme Implementation Officer by telephone on: 01939 232771 or email: tgrantham@northshropshiredc.gov.uk.

Click here to download a copy of the Ellesmere Action Plan.

Click here to download a copy of the Ellesmere Market Town Programme Update for September 2007

Wem

Wem was the first of North Shropshire's market towns to be part of the Government's Market Towns Initiative in 2001.  A number of projects received funding from the Programme, for which more information can be found in the final report, which was completed in 2005 and can be downloaded here.

Market Drayton and Whitchurch

The Programmes in Market Drayton and Whitchurch ran from 2002 until March 2006.  Each town produced an action plan and follow up report detailing the successes from the Programme.

Click here to download a copy of the Market Drayton Action Plan
Click here to download a copy of the Whitchurch Action Plan

Relevant links

Online Business Directory

The Council has established a new online business directory for North Shropshire companies and now any business can be included. If you run a business in North Shropshire, why not add it to the directory free of charge. The directory is also fully searchable, so if you want to find anything from a particular type of business to a whole range of businesses in a specific location within North Shropshire, you are now able to. Click here to register your business or search for businesses in North Shropshire.  

Network North Shropshire

Click here for a link to Network North Shropshire, the District's first ever business newsletter.

Home Enterprise

More information on home working in North Shropshire can be found by clicking here.  If you operate a home enterprise in North Shropshire, why not add your business details to the North Shropshire Online Business Directory, which recognises Home Enterprise in the majority of business categories?

Business Support

For details concerning forms of business support offered by North Shropshire District Council, including grants and commercial property, click here.

Economic Development Service

For more information about North Shropshire District Council's Economic Development Service, including market town regeneration, click here.

Facts and figures

Click here for some details regarding the population and employment make up of North Shropshire.  More detailed data can be located on the National Statistics website neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk.

This page was last updated on 11 July 2008