What happens next?
One of the council's Business Engagement Officers will submit an application in principle on your behalf to the grant panel, providing the council's Business Engagement team understand you meet the eligibility criteria.
The panel meetings occur on a fortnightly basis and your initial application will be declined or approved in principle.
If your application is approved in principle, you are then required to submit a completed application form and supporting documentation which the council's Business Engagement Officers can support you with.
Please note, from the date of your application being approved in principle, you have 12 weeks to submit your full application and compliant supporting documentation. If this is not provided within 12 weeks the grant allocation will be removed from the database. The applicant may however request an extension to the timescales via the council's Business Engagement team. Extensions are at the discretion of the council's Business Engagement team and should be agreed before the deadline to avoid you losing your grant allocation in principle.
Following receipt of a completed application form and compliant supporting documentation, a decision will be made by the grant panel within 4 to 6 weeks.
The council's Business Engagement team will contact you in relation to your application and, if successful, will provide you with a formal offer of grant assistance, subject to a '5 Day Call In Period' where the grant panel decision is open to scrutiny by councillors. Therefore, it is at your own financial risk if you commence work before the 'Call In Period' has ended.
Once you have received this formal offer you are able to commence with the works for which you have applied for funding from the Chorley Shop Front Improvement grant. Any work carried out or paid for prior to the date of your grant offer letter will be deemed ineligible.