New Swathe of Community Radio Ofcom Licensing
After inviting expressions of interest from groups on applying for community radio licences last year, Ofcom has now whittled down the shortlist to 43 areas across the UK. Croydon, Carlisle, Hastings, Durham, Edinburgh, Enniskillen and Merthyr Tydfil are among the areas included. They were selected on the basis of 90 expressions of interest and used these to select areas. Invitations to apply for licences will be published in the last quarter of this year. See the full list below, otherwise visit Ofcom’s website for the full document.
| Area description (taken from one or more expressions of interest) |
|---|
| Albrighton and Cosford (Shropshire) |
| Amersham and Chesham and the surrounding area (Buckinghamshire) |
| Borough of Scarborough (North Yorkshire) |
| Burghclere (Hampshire) |
| Carlisle (Cumbria) |
| Chesterfield (North Derbyshire) |
| Maryport, Workington, Whitehaven, Egremont (Cumbria) |
| Clowne, Bolsover and Barlborough (Derbyshire) |
| Dover (Kent) |
| Durham (County Durham) |
| Eastleigh, Hampshire |
| Faversham (Kent) |
| Ferndown, Wimborne Minster, Corfe Mullen and Holt (Dorset) |
| Hastings (East Sussex) |
| Grimsby, Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe, Sutton-on-Sea, Chapel St Leonards, Ingoldmells, Skegness (Lincolnshire) |
| Lowestoft and north east Suffolk |
| Lutterworth (Leicestershire) |
| Melksham (Wiltshire) |
| North Somerset |
| Northwich, Middlewich and Winsford (central Cheshire) |
| Portishead (Somerset) |
| Ryedale (North Yorkshire) |
| Shaftesbury and Gillingham (Dorset) and Semley (Wiltshire) |
| South Bucks District (Beaconsfield, Denham, Gerrards Cross, Iver, Stoke Poges, Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter) |
| South east London/Borough of Croydon |
| Thornbury and district (Gloucestershire) |
| Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells (Kent) |
| Wallingford (Oxfordshire) |
| Wigan (Greater Manchester) |
| Ayr (South Ayrshire) |
| Dundee |
| Dunfermline (Fife) |
| Edinburgh |
| Hamilton, Larkhall, Stonehouse (South Lanarkshire) |
| Kinross-shire |
| Livingston, Bathgate and Linlithgow (West Lothian) |
| Shotts (North Lanarkshire) |
| Ballymena (County Antrim) |
| Enniskillen (County Fermanagh) |
| Newtownabbey (County Antrim) |
| Omagh (County Tyrone) |
| Merthyr Tydfil (Mid Glamorgan) |
| Locations within the Vale of Clwyd; Kinmel Bay, Abergele |