In the Chancellor’s budget today (15 March), North East Lincolnshire Council’s bid to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to support the remodelling of Grimsby Town Centre has been approved. This is on top of the successful Levelling Up Fund bid…
Conservation repair work on the Alfred Enderby Smokehouse on the Port of Grimsby has just about been completed. Started last September, the work by local firm ES Rudkin Ltd has included reinstating historic features as well as improving security features…
Work is due to start on site at Riverhead in Grimsby next week (Monday 20 March) to create a new open space in the centre of town. Since the hoardings went up, the main contractors have since been secured, and…
Two more major milestones have been completed this week in the progress towards a new leisure offer and market hall at Freshney Place. This comes in the wake of the announcement yesterday that the Council was allocated money in the…
A bridge lift took place on the iconic landmark on Wednesday 5 April 2023 to carry out weight testing to help assist specialist contractor Spencer Group with the weight balancing design works. Following the bridge weight test, the next section…
A underused space in the centre of Grimsby is being transformed into a new public space, with work being done throughout 2023. The new designs have been drawn up by Arup Landscape Design, and incorporate input from local people, including…
Spencer Group, the specialist contractor currently working on the major restoration of Corporation Bridge, have shared drone footage of the lift that took place on Wednesday 5 April 2023. The lift took place to carry out weight testing to help…
PLANS for a football ‘hub’ on land in Grimsby have been finalised, thanks to an injection of money from the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation. A bid for £1.5m to the Football Foundation to support the new…
PLANS for a football ‘hub’ on land in Grimsby have been finalised, thanks to an injection of money from the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation. A bid for £1.5m to the Football Foundation to support the new…
Work has started on the latest project to receive Townscape Heritage Funding on Cleethorpes’ historic Alexandra Road. The Townscape Heritage Project for Cleethorpes, supported by National Lottery Heritage Grant funding, has approved the next funding application to undertake works to…
Scaffolding is currently being erected at Corporation Bridge to provide access to the underside and harder to reach areas of the bridge in a safe and controlled manner. This then allows the grit blasting, detailed inspections, and painting of the…
A vision to create modern, smart homes on a riverside setting in Grimsby’s town centre are taking a step forward. Following discussions between North East Lincolnshire Council and Homes England, central Government funding has been agreed to allow investigative work…
North East Lincolnshire Council is leading the way in showing how industry and nature can thrive side-by-side. An innovative environmental project sees rare birds visiting the area as industry interest grows in North East Lincolnshire’s award-winning mitigation sites. Two large…
Corporation Road Bridge will be fully closed on Wednesday 5 July to allow for further scaffolding to be installed as works progress. All the steel deck plates on the bridge have now been grit blasted. Some of the steel deck…
As scaffolding is erected on Corporation Bridge for works to progress, take a look at the structure from above. The below drone footage has been filmed by Spencer Group, the specialist contractor appointed to carry out the major restoration works.…
The final piece of the jigsaw has dropped into place at the historic Alfred Enderby Smokehouse on the Port of Grimsby. Started last September, the work by local firm ES Rudkin Ltd has included reinstating historic features as well as…
Archaeologists have discovered the distinctive ‘ladder settlement’ as part of the planning requirements laid out by Equans, on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council, ahead of a housing development being permitted in Healing. Due to the archaeological interest in the…
AS the first anniversary of North East Lincolnshire Council’s ownership of Freshney Place approaches, there’s good news for the shopping centre in a number of key areas. A report being presented to a special Freshney Place Cabinet meeting at the…
The Leader of North East Lincolnshire Council and the portfolio for environment and transport attended Corporation Bridge on Friday 21 July to carry out a site visit with specialist contractor Spencer Group and the council’s delivery partner Equans. Updates were…
DISCOVER ‘THE STUDIO’ AND IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS FROM MYENERGI AND RWE It’s finally arriving… Projekt Renewable lands in Alexandra Dock next week! After two years and £300,000 in funding, three containers and a shed-load of opportunity will touchdown in Grimsby. Supported…