Millom & Area Market Town Health Check & Action Plan

" .. sustaining Millom as a distinctive, independent town that provides quality employment for its residents and provides a wide range of valued services for local people and visitors "

Millom is a small coastal town situated in the most southerly part of Copeland District. It is separated from the Furness peninsular by the Duddon Estuary and is bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. The coastal and the fell environments that surround the town have high landscape value located adjacent to the Lake District National Park and the Duddon Estuary, the latter having international recognition for its significance as a wildlife habitat.

Millom acts as the service centre for the villages of Haverigg, Bootle, The Green, The Hill, Waberthwaite and a scattered rural population.

The Action Plan area covers the wards of Millom Without, Bootle, Haverigg, Holborn Hill and Newtown. It was with the discovery and exploitation of the iron ore deposits at Hodbarrow that the town grew and prospered.

In 1855 Millom had a population of over 10,000 and the town was devastated when the mine closed in 1968.

Millom's most famous son is poet and author Norman Nicholson (1914 - 87), who lived his whole life at St. George's Terrace in the town centre. A new stained glass window memorial has been placed in St. George's Church, where he worshipped.

The Millom & Haverigg Economic Development Group will be the lead organisation in the development and delivery of projects identified in the Action Plan, under the Market Towns Initiative banner, the Group will work in partnership to achieve the Vision for Millom and the surrounding rural hinterland. There is a population of 10,288 within the Action Plan area.

A Programme Manager was appointed in June to work with the Economic Development Group to drive forward the Action Plan for Millom and the surrounding area.

Millom & Area Market Town Action Plan

The Millom & Area Market Town Health Check and Action Plan has been developed under the Countryside Agency's Market Towns Initiative.

Following public consultation, the Action Plan identified a Vision for Millom:

To progress towards this Vision for Millom, the Action Plan focuses on six Strategic Objectives, which are as follows:

• Objective 1 - To support improvements in the use of retail, industrial and commercial premises
  
  
• Objective 2 - To improve the development and promotion of community facilities for local people and visitors
   
• Objective 3 -  To improve existing transport services and develop complementary transport provision
   
• Objective 4 - To implement the Green Plan (Environmental Improvements Scheme)
   
• Objective 5 - To support improved services for young people
   
• Objective 6 - To support alternative employment initiatives

To view The Millom & Area Market Town Health Check and Action Plan, select the link below:

The Action Plan is available in PDF format, you will need Acrobat Reader to access this file.

If you do not have a copy of this programme then select the link below, this will take you to the Adobe website where you can download of free copy.

 View: The Action Plan   [PDF - 498k file size]

Go to: Adobe UK website - Acrobat Download Page

Vikki Turner, Millom & Area Market Town Programme Manager,

Millom Council Offices, St. George's Road, Millom, Cumbria, LA18 4DD. Tel: (01229) 776312
 
e-mail: vturner@copelandbc.gov.uk

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