THE committee of councillors and senior business people running a bid for millions of pounds of government funding will not redo its application if one or two projects are refused by Whitehall.

The Town Bid Board, which was set up to manage a bid for up to £25m of funding from the government’s Towns Fund, has asked for money for seven regeneration projects.

The areas to be spent on are the Kimmerfields site off Fleming Way, where the Zurich headquarters is to be built, the Railway Village heritage action zone with particular emphasis on the Mechanics’ Institute, The Health Hydro in Milton Road, the Carriageworks refurbishment, building Create Studios, regenerating the David Murray John Tower and renovating the Brunel market.

The board, chaired by Nationwide director Richard Newland, met early on Friday morning to consider what to do if all or some of its bids are rejected.

Swindon and Wiltshire Local Enterprise Partnership chief executive Paddy Bradley said: “We’ve had informal feedback which is positive so it’s unlikely that all our bids will be rejected.”

He told the board if one or two projects were unsuccessful it would be possible to rebid, but that would mean withdrawing the whole bid, redoing the rejected parts and resubmitting.

He said: “The task group doesn’t propose to do that. We have some momentum on the schemes and overall if there are one or two parts which are not funded, the group proposes to accept what the department says and carry on with the rest, which are funded, to maintain momentum.”

That suggestion was agreed by the board.

An answer on whether the bid has been successful is expected with the next two weeks.