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| Currently empty but soon to become a hub of creativity - the site awaits its revamp |
GRIMSBY could boast its own 'culture village' for hip, trendy types.
Plans have been approved for a workspace on Grimsby Docks to accommodate a mixture of artists and creative entrepreneurs.
The first phase of the project - starting midway through next year - will be to bring back into use three buildings as a setting for creative individuals and businesses.
This will incorporate both studio space and communal space for collaboration, networking and art installations.
North East Lincolnshire Council says it will seek an organisation to take on the day-to-day operation of the workspace once it has been completed.
The buildings have plenty of heritage having been used variously as a bank, carpenters' workshop, sail printers, basket makers, engineers, boiler makers and fish processors.
Time was when the complex had to be re-built after having suffering bomb damage during the Second World War.
It is not thought any wildlife will be displaced by the revamp.
According to a specialist survey, the buildings have "very low to negligible potential as bat-roosting habitat".
It continues: "There are a low number of crevices available, and no evidence of bats was identified within any of the building.
"The site is very damp, reducing the value for roosting, and there is no suitable bat foraging habitat within the immediate locality, due to the site being within Grimsby Docks."
However, as a planning condition, swift and house sparrow nesting terraces - a minimum of four units - will need to be incorporated.
The project aims to provide a culture-led regeneration project in the historic Kasbah area of the Port of Grimsby as part of the wider Great Grimsby Heritage Action Zone.
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