Michael has welcomed the news that Sevenoaks Town Council has secured a \u00a3755,600 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant towards the refurbishment of the Bat & Ball Station Building.<\/p>\n
The Bat & Ball Station Building is a Victorian property constructed in 1862.\u00a0 It was the first station in Sevenoaks and used by Queen Victoria when visiting Knole. It has been boarded up since 1991 and gradually deteriorated.<\/p>\n
Having helped the Town Council secure the funding, Michael offered his congratulations.<\/p>\n
He said:\u00a0 \u201cRegeneration projects require huge community effort just to get off the ground.\u00a0 So I congratulate the Town Council for securing the funding it needs for the project to go ahead and I look forward to visiting the station in the New Year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The restored building will provide public toilets, two community rooms, and a caf\u00e9 selling Kent produce and heritage information.\u00a0 It will also have the ability to sell train tickets.\u00a0 Currently there is only a ticket machine.\u00a0 All of these facilities should encourage more people to use the station.<\/p>\n
The project is on track to be completed in September 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Michael has welcomed the news that Sevenoaks Town Council has secured a \u00a3755,600 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant towards the refurbishment of the Bat & Ball Station Building. The Bat & Ball Station Building is a Victorian property constructed in 1862.\u00a0 It was the first station in Sevenoaks and used by Queen Victoria when visiting … Continue reading “Full Steam Ahead for Station Regeneration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[724,727,729,728,726,497,725,591],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2097\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}