City Hall officer blames cut of £100,000 and increasing costs
Belfast’s city centre Christmas lights display will be halved this year due to budget concerns at City Hall.
He said: “I won’t labour the bad news in the paper. In short, our budget, given the council’s financial pressures this year, had been set as a flat budget, which means there is no financial allocation that would allow us to give funding to lighting in the arterial routes, or animation. “That means we have a shortfall to install the city centre lighting scheme at the moment using our agreed flat budget, which would see reductions in some of the streets in the city centre.
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“This funding scheme is accessible by community groups but not by the council. Those groups can apply for funding between £2,500 - £10,000 for arts and heritage activities and/or other cultural events that contribute to the cultural identity of an area or group and celebrate the uniqueness of that area or group.
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