Officials are revising a proposal they had hoped to submit to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), following British Sugar's announcement that operations at Cantley sugar factory will cease next February.

The authority had planned to lodge an expression of interest, used by the fund to assess applications, by the end of the summer.

It wanted the money to support projects about the history of the sugar beet industry on the Broads, as well as supporting habitat restoration.

The British sugar factory on the banks of the River Yare in Cantley (Image: Newsquest)

Cantley sugar factory in 1949 (Image:........

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