Council confident of generating handsome revenue stream with its proposed new Cleethorpes car park

                                                        

Car park behind pub should be a decent money-spinner for council  

THE land behind the recently opened Old Vic pub in Cleethorpes looks set to become a council-run short-stay car park very soon.

The longstanding proposal is set to be signed off by NELC's portfolio holder for transport, Cllr Stewart Swinburn, at a meeting next week.

When the council sold the pub for £430,000 to the Lancashire-based Amber pubs chain, it retained ownership of the car park.

The authority  intends to provide 25 spaces and name it the Victoria car park.

The works will cost about £31,300, but the projection is for the annual revenue to be between £40,000 and £50,000 a year.  

It is understood Amber is also paying the council an annual ground rent of £2,500 for the 99-year lease on the pub.

Elsewhere in Cleethorpes, NELC is planning to make the maximum stay for the existing 53-space car park off High Street for two hours only.

The authority hope the two measures will compensate for the likely loss of car parking in readiness for the forthcoming part-pedestrianisation of the market place.

The proposals will still need to be advertised via Public Notices in the media to allow any interested parties to make  representations if they so wish.

                                       

Motorists seeking to park for longer than two hours will soon have to look elsewhere