'Power to the people' for ideas on £20m in town's fund

A NEW group set up to spend £20 million of government money in Torquay has pledged it will be 'power to the people' when it comes to working out who gets it.

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The Torquay Place Leadership Board will invite local people to submit ideas for projects to make the most of the decade-long programme, and chair Jim Parker said money could go to anything from a major building project to a single dog bin on the roadside.

But, he stressed, all the ideas would come from the community.

"This really is about power to the people," he said. "It's about giving decision-making back to the community."

The board's job is to create a 10-year strategy for spending the money which is coming from the government's Plan For Neighbourhoods initiative.