FALMOUTH Youth Club is to receive cash injection of £175,000, a year after the plans to build a new community centre were halted when a third of the funding was withdrawn.
Carrick district council have now stepped in with cabinet members recommending to the full council to give £100,000 in capital funding and provide an interest free loan of up to £75,000 to enable the project to go ahead.
It is also hoped the backing from the district council will give other potential investors confidence in the scheme to bring in a further £900,000.
Carrick district council consider the £100,000 contribution to be value for money as it will deliver a new flagship youth and community centre in one of the districts most deprived wards.
Committee chairman Chris Smith said: "We couldn't have had a better start to the New Year. There now seems to be every chance that the town can look forward to a new £1 million community centre within the next 18 months."
The committee had spent over three years on the plans for a £1.6 million scheme for a two-storey building with a caf, training rooms, workspace, meeting rooms, youth club and nursery, which had been approved by Carrick district council planners when SureStart pulled out its £500,000 grant.
The now revised plans for the building will include offices, art and quiet rooms, a caf, community room and new changing rooms to replace those currently being used for the football pitches.
The council will consider the recommendation on February 28.
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