Work is due to start on site for the Riverhead improvement scheme in early January 2023. The remodelled area is being funded as one of the projects included in the Town Deal, the money for which was secured in 2020 and is ringfenced for specific projects. The scheme will see the existing area changed to…
3 months ago | Town Deal
North East Lincolnshire Council is launching a new campaign to fix up rundown buildings in Grimsby town centre. The project aims to improve the street scene in the town centre as it is poised for a wide-ranging, multi-million-pound transformation. Focused on the busy area around the Victoria Street West pedestrian precinct and surrounding streets, the…
6 months ago | Business and investment
North East Lincolnshire Council will distribute £4.5-million to eligible local businesses as part of the Government’s Covid-19 Additional Relief Fund. The Government created the £1.5-billion fund to support businesses affected by the pandemic but not eligible for existing business rate support. Cabinet members met on 8 September to discuss a report about the fund and…
6 months ago | Business and investmentFAMILY leisure activities, a cinema and a new modern market with an overall entrance featuring open community space, green landscaping, cafes, and seating – that is what Grimsby’s new look town centre could look like. Artists’ impressions of how a transformed western end of Freshney Place, Victoria Street and the Bull Ring could be, show…
7 months ago | Town Deal
The first glimpse of what Riverhead Square in Grimsby might look like in the future has been released for the public to have their say. In 2020, we did a survey about Grimsby town centre to feed into the development of the overall Masterplan. The main aim of the regeneration of the square is to…
8 months ago | Town Deal
The annual Skills Fair returned this year, with over a thousand youngsters going along to meet with employers and education providers to find out about their options for the future. The event, which was organised by North East Lincolnshire Council, working with the Department for Work and Pensions, Franklin College, and Grimsby Institute for Further…
8 months ago | Business and investment
Tourism businesses along the coast of Greater Lincolnshire are being invited to take part in a new programme to help them take advantage of being more environmentally sustainable. Considerate Group have been commissioned by the county council and Greater Lincolnshire LEP to deliver a Green Tourism Ambassador Training Program – working with a selection of…
10 months ago | Business and investment
Council Leader, Philip Jackson, has welcomed the announcement from the Government about further support for businesses hit hard by the COVID pandemic. Councillor Jackson said: “It’s no secret that the pandemic has hit many businesses hard. We have been very successful in getting COVID grant and wider support to our local business community to see…
1 year ago | Business and investmentFIVE organisations across North East Lincolnshire are celebrating, following an announcement that they will share a total pot of £1.2m from central Government for a range of projects. All with the main aim of boosting job prospects and opportunity for residents across the borough, the five awards were announced this week by the UK Community…
1 year ago | Business and investmentTHE leader of North East Lincolnshire Council has today expressed ‘disappointment’ at the news that a multi-million-pound Government Levelling Up Fund, (LUF), bid for major highways projects has been unsuccessful in this round. The near £50m bid was submitted for the first round of LUF funding earlier this year, but it was not listed as…
1 year ago | Grimsby West