WORK UNDERWAY ON MAJOR REVAMP OF FORMER TERTIA TRUST HOLIDAY CENTRE IN HUMBERSTON

 

Levelled in readiness for installation of some 50 caravans - the former Tertia Trust site in Humberston

WORK is well underway on redevelopment of the former Tertia Trust site off South Sea Lane in Humberston.

As part of longstanding expansion plans, Thorpe Park holiday centre  intends to install up to 51 caravans.

Before its controversial demise, Tertia used to provide holidays on the site for disadvantaged children.

But in a suprise swoop in March 2014, the Tertia trustees were replaced  by three senior North East Lincolnshire councillors - leader Chris Shaw, deputy leader Mick Burnett (now deceased) and mayor Alex Baxter - whose stated ambition was to repurpose the site as a 'respite village' for wounded ex-servicemen.

The trio secured a £65,000 start-up grant from NELC but the project never got off the ground. 

The site fell into rack and ruin, prompting the land's alarmed owners, Bourne Leisure to take back the lease.

That was midway through 2015 since when the old buildings - including a wartime radar station - have been demolished and the vacant site had become an 'unofficial' nature reserve, rich in unusual wildflowers and songbirds.

It is not known if there is a target for completion of the revamp or when the site will open to guests and visitors.

Mr Shaw and Mr Baxter both stepped down as Tertia directors on July 1, 2015, little more than a year after having taken charge. 

Tertia Trust was fomally dissolved on May 24, 2016, but some details about its 32-year history can be found on the Companies House website. 

Although no longer members of NELC, the two surviving ex-councillors now channel their support for the armed forces into the community interest company, AFMET, based at the Knoll in Cleethorpes, where they are both directors. 

                                                            

A new access road is being built to link the former Tertia Trust site with the rest of Thorpe Park