Project partners English Heritage, Shropshire Council and Friends of the Flaxmill Maltings said, if successful, thefirstphase of work would focus on the stove and dye, as well as the main mill.
"The approval of the full business case marks the culmination of more than a decade of work by the UHB and its predecessor organisations, the Welsh government and significantly the Noah's Ark Appeal, without whose tireless support thefirstphase of the Children's Hospital of Wales would not have come to fruition, " he said.