Infrastructure projects supported by our Growth Deals continue to make progress.

Infrastructure projects supported from the Local Growth Fund via our Growth Deals with central government continue to make progress around the county.

Specialist housing provider LACE Housing officially opened its brand new £2 million affordable housing development in Skegness in September which was part-funded from the LEP’s Unlocking Rural Housing programme.

Chapman Court, comprising 17 affordable retirement apartments and a holiday home for older people, is situated on Scarbrough Avenue in Skegness and is LACE Housing’s first new scheme in Skegness for 20 years.

It is named in memory of the late Ron Chapman, an experienced lifeboat crew member who served with Skegness RNLI for 39 years; the RNLI is LACE Housing’s chosen charity for 2017.

David Dexter, Vice Chair of the Greater Lincolnshire LEP, said: “I was very pleased to be able to join LACE Housing in celebrating the opening of this development.

“The grant was part of our Unlocking Rural Housing programme, which we developed because we recognise the importance of housing to the local economy, and the contribution which housing makes to growth.”

Work on the new £30 million Lincoln Transport Hub is continuing apace: City of Lincoln Council has announced that the new 1,000-space multi-storey car park will open two months ahead of schedule, on Friday 17th November to coincide with the switch-on of the city’s Christmas lights.

Meanwhile the scheduled opening date for the new bus station is now January 2018. The current temporary bus station will remain open until the new one is operational.

The Lincoln Transport Hub received £13 million from the LEP via our Growth Deal.

We will provide updates on other Growth Deal schemes in our next newsletter at the end of the year.