Crumbling historic buildings in North Yorkshire are to get a £2.2 million lifeline in restoration grants. And a leading expert claims the cash is vital if the county's deteriorating architecture is to be saved. Douglas Campbell, of the county council's building conservation department which oversees grant aid schemes, said: "Behind the idyllic chocolate box image of North Yorkshire's many towns and village tourist haunts are vacant areas which reveal disrepair, inappropriate alterations, dereliction and neglect symptomatic of underlying economic pressures." Mr Campbell said up to 200 buildings are awarded cash every year amounting to as much as 50 per cent of restoration costs. Work carried out includes stone and traditional joinery repairs at Pickering, and recently completed refurbishment of shops at Knaresborough.
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