Meerkats, monkeys and more! Planners' go-ahead for 'animal management centre' at Grimsby Institute

                                                        

                                              

The design of the proposed animal management centre (Image: Farrell & Clark)

ANIMALS - including meerkats - are  coming to Grimsby Institute's Nuns Corner campus.

North East Lincolnshire Council planners have given the green light for construction of  an 'animal management centre' to provide a 12-dog kennels, a Blue Cross cattery, an independent veterinary practice and lecture  rooms.

According to agents for the institute Farrell and Clark, there will also be an aviary and separate enclosures for rabbits, ferrets, skunks - and possibly for reptiles and monkeys.

At least one Laceby Road residents has protested about potential noise from dogs barking and howling and another about potential rodent nuisance - but to no avail.

The site is currently being used as a temporary car park.

                                

The new animal management centre will expand the range of courses at Grimsby Institute

The Grimsby News says: It is good to see the choice of courses being widened at Grimsby Institute, but we have misgivings about this particular venture. It seems that an  awful lot of species - some mutually hostile - will be enclosed within a relatively small area to the potential detriment of their wellbeing. There could also be a noise nuisance not just to residents but also to students at work elsewhere on the campus. And what if one or more of the creatures escape? Worst of all, might the centre become a target for animal rights activists with who knows what consequences?