Prospects for new market hall and cinema in Freshney Place fade following funding bid snub

 

THERE has been a severe blow to plans for a revamp of Freshney Place in Grimsby to include a new market hall  and a cinema.

North East Lincolnshire Council had hoped to get a shedload of levelling-up money from the Government to fund the project.

But the project never inspired residents. Nor, apparently, have the decision-making civil servants in Whitehall been impressed.

As a result, the bid has failed. 

Also unsucsessful has been NELC's bid for a new transport hub to include a bus station. 

The Grimsby News says: Council leaders will understandably be disappointed by the failure of the two bids, but there is a silver lining. The Government has spared the authority from pressing ahead with schemes which signally failed to inspire residents and were almost certainly unviable. The fear is that that it will now seek to raise monies from other sources which would be a catastrophic blunder. NELC should draw a line under its failed initiative and instead concentrate on delivering the goods in Cleethorpes where its bid for Levelling-up funds has been successful.