Tipperary County Council was awarded €190,460.00 under THRIVE Strand 1.This funding will be utilised to enhance the Thurles Town Centre Renewal Strategy 2021, to identify projects that promote the conservation and adaptive reuse of the built heritage stock while reducing vacancy and dereliction in the town centre, to create a pipeline of investment ready built heritage projects, and to bring one of these projects to the stage of readiness where it can be included in a THRIVE Strand 2 application. This THRIVE Strand 1 project will involve stakeholder and citizen engagement to co-create the enhanced integrated urban strategy, to explore local needs and opportunities and to co-design a viable and sustainable end use for one building project to be put forward for funding under THRIVE Strand 2.