Bill for repairs to Grimsby's Corporation Road Bridge soars to well over £7-million - and still rising

 

Cabinet members likely to be quizzed about Corporation Road Bridge during Facebook Q&A session

THE bill for repairing Grimsby's Corporation Road Bridge has already reached in excess of £7-million with no sign of the structure being complete, let alone re-opened, in the near future.

When work started in summer 2022 , the budget was put at £5.1-million with likely completion by August 2023.

But by April this year, the bill was already £7,301, 921 - with North East Lincolnshire Council being warned that it might soar substantially higher. 

It was this point that the authority bit the bullet and fired the main contractor, the Hull-based Spencer Group.

Since then, it has been working with an experienced consultancy, Pell Frischmann, which has been carrying out its own assessment of what still needs to be done ahead of the appointment of a new contractor. 

NELC's cabinet is likely to be quizzed about the bridge when it holds a live question-and-answer Facebook session at 6.30pm tomorrow evening (Friday).

 Also likely to be raised are questions about repairs to Grimsby

s central library. about the extensive use of  Glyphosate poison across the borough's gardens, roadside verges and other green places and about three stalled Levelling-up projects in Cleethorpes - revamp of the market place, reconfiguration of Pleasure Gardens and construction of an amenity building on Sea Road. 

                                                               

Gull's eye view of a stretch of the impressive  problematical bridge which is currently 'celebrating' a centenary since it was built