Beatles fan Ming Yeung making brisk progress with housing project opposite Tesco in Cleethorpes

The first houses at Strawberry Fields - named after a song by The Beatles - should be ready for occupation in the New Year, if not sooner

 

PROPERTY entrepreneur Ming Yeung seems to be making much  more progress in developing his Strawberry Fields housing development in Cleethorpes than he is with the proposed refurb  of  Pleasure Island

Mr Yeung's Liverpool-based company, YPG, is a member of  the consortium seeking to redevelop the former theme park if and when planning permission can be secured from North East Lincolnshire.

But while work at Pleasure Island is on hold - probably at least until next year - the first of the proposed 86 houses at Strawberry Fields, which is on 2.5 acres of  former farmland opposite Tesco Extra,  now seem almost ready for occupation.

It is understood YPG has received an £18.3-million loan  from London-based Hilltop Credit Partners to crack on with building the houses at speed.  

Artist's impression of the development - complete with the scenic mountains of Grimsby (!) in the background