Council cabinet members optimistic about Grimsby leisure scheme after demolition site walkabout

You can almost smell the dust! Contractors welcome council cabinet members to the western end of Freshney Place where former shops are to be replaced with restaurants, coffee shops,  a cinema and more

IT'S full steam ahead on demolition of  the western end of Freshney Place ahead of redevelopment of this part of Grimsby with a cinema, cafes, restaurants, a food hall and an indoor market.

The Bullring shops have now literally bitten the dust as well as most  of the upper floors and frontage of the former BHS store.

With the former market hall having been taken down earlier this year, the site is now being cleared and the rubble being taken off site for crushing. 

According to North East Lincolnshire Council, much of this rubble  will be returned to site to form some of the foundations for the new buildings.

The temporary result of the work is that a view has opened up from the Bullring directly through to Frederick Ward Way and beyond!

Council Leader, Cllr Philip Jackson, and cabinet colleagues joined GMI on a visit to the site this week, and are said to have been "delighted" with  progress so far.

"It’s a massive project for us and for the town," beamed Cllr Jackson. "The work that GMI are doing on site is fantastic. 

"We know there is still a lot to do, but the Freshney Place leisure scheme will transform this end of Grimsby."

"There is a way to go yet, but we have anchor tenants signed up  and have agreed to progress legal work to secure leases with others whose identities will be announced in due course."