Developer Keepmoat has started initial survey work at Alexandra Dock In Grimsby, where new homes are to be built.
This week the company is on site next to the Garth Lane bridge area to begin ‘trial pitting’ – ground investigations to determine soil and ground conditions ahead of any building.
This comes ahead of public consultation and the submission of a planning application for around 130 homes on the 6.25-acre site. Keepmoat was awarded the build lease for the council-owned site earlier this year.
Initial support to get the scheme underway has come from the Grimsby Towns Fund, and Homes England.
The site itself sits behind the new Horizon OnSide Youth Zone alongside the River Freshney and next to the remodelled Garth Lane bridge and waterside walkway. It was earmarked for homes in Grimsby’s Town Centre Masterplan – cited as an ideal location given the water nearby and the improvements that have already taken place.
North East Lincolnshire Council Leader Cllr Philip Jackson, said: “North East Lincolnshire must develop as a place where people want to live and work. If that does not happen, we risk stagnating as a borough. We’re committed to making sure that does not happen.
“There’s a long way to go yet, and developments of this scale don’t happen overnight. But we are working to improve the town centre as a whole and this is part of that vision. We want people who work in our borough to also live here as this will maximise the economic benefits to the area.”
