Major infrastructure projects part-funded by the LEP via our Growth Deal are taking shape.

Major infrastructure projects part-funded by the LEP via our Growth Deal are taking shape.  Here’s an update on the latest progress:

Lincoln Transport Hub

The transport hub in Lincoln is fully operational, and there will be an official launch event in the summer. The Lincoln Transport Hub won the East Midlands Civil Engineering Project of the Year award.

Peppermint Park Food Enterprise Zone, Holbeach

The new roundabout is now complete and work to provide utilities to the site will begin in earnest this summer. The LEP has contributed £3m towards the cost of infrastructure in Phase 1.

The LEP has formally awarded an allocation of £2.4m to the new Agri-Food Centre of Excellence as an anchor project on the Food Enterprise Zone and hopes to sign the contractual agreement in the next month now that ESIF match funding has also been confirmed. Work is expected to begin in October this year.

Go Skegness

This transport improvement project aims to to make it easier for people to travel around the Skegness area by bus, by bike or on foot. Work is ongoing in three areas:

  • the Chapel St Leonard's coastal footway/cycleway link (work will start this summer)
  • Scarborough Avenue / Roman Bank junction improvements which aim to improve safety and accessibility in conjunction with a highway surfacing scheme
  • Gibraltar Point Phase 4b new footway/cycleway

Access to Employment Zones- Toll Bar Phase 1

This project will improve traffic flow, ease congestion and support housing and employment growth; Toll Bar Junction has a history of peak hour congestion. Work is estimated to take approximately six months to complete and will begin very soon.

SHIIP Phase 1– Strategic Ecological Mitigation

The South Humber Industrial Investment Programme (SHIIP) will benefit the economy and local community by unlocking land for development, creating a new link road between our ports, bosting employment and providing ecological space to protect the environment on the south Humber bank. Construction work will begin on Site Inland West in September 2018.

SHIIP Phase 2 – Humber Link Road

Construction starts on site October 2018 and will be completed in winter 2019.

Skills Capital Investment fund Programme

Work will start this summer on two schemes: the digital skills centre at New College Stamford is a refurbishment project (July/August start) while the Boston EMAT (Engineering, Manufacturing and Technology) Building is a new-build facility to be managed by Boston College (August/September start).

Medical School

The Higher Education Funding Council England (HEFCE) and Health Education England (HEE) confirmed in March that the University of Lincoln’s collaborative bid with the University of Nottingham to establish a new medical school was successful.

80 places have been allocated to create the new school as part of a major expansion of 25% additional medical students for the UK. Following a rigorous bidding process, Lincolnshire is one of only five regions chosen to receive a new school.

The school will welcome its first cohort of undergraduate medicine students in September 2019. It will make a huge difference to the Lincolnshire region, which will benefit from the establishment of this new hub. Clinical placements will take place at hospitals, GP surgeries and other healthcare units across the county in collaboration with United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

When the school is at capacity in a few years’ time it will deliver medical training to around 400 undergraduate students in the historic city of Lincoln.

Growth Deal funding of £5m has already been provisionally allocated for a Greater Lincolnshire Centre for Health Science, which will form part of the new medical school.