Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterCouncil bosses are to spend government cash covering up empty shop windows in towns and giving business owners £3,000 grants to tidy up their premises.Plants sprouting from buildings will also be weeded out.
Public art or murals may also adorn centres. The £382,000 to spruce up retail premises comes from the Scottish Government Town Centre Fund.Under the scheme shop owners or tenants can get grants to paint and carry out other improvements to the external appearance of buildings.They won't have to spend a penny.
Councillor Siobhian Brown, SNP, said: “The ongoing Covid 19 pandemic has been extremely challenging for all local businesses.
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