£3.76m drainage work to boost region
A MULTI-million pound scheme that could create 5,000 new jobs on the South Humber Bank has moved closer to becoming a reality.
The Yorkshire Forward development agency has committed up to £3.76-million to fund drainage improvements on the Killingholme Marshes area of the South Humber Gateway project.
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DEVELOPMENT: From left, North Lincolnshire Council's Marcus Walker, Able Chief Executive, Peter Stephenson, and leader of North Lincolnshire Council Mark Kirk at the proposed site for Able UK on the South Humber bank.
And in a double boost for the proposed development, plans to transform the A160 have been rubber-stamped at regional level.
The South Humber Gateway aims to develop land from the Humber Bridge towards Immingham.
The draining of the marshes will be key to development as part of the project.
North Lincolnshire Council leader, Cllr Mark Kirk, said: "This is the news we have been waiting many years to hear.
"It is a massive boost for jobs and investment.
"It will provide the funding for the drainage of the whole of Killingholme marshes.
"Without this scheme, we simply cannot approve planning applications. That will now change.
"It will send out a very positive signal to potential inward investors.
"Once complete, it will open up hundreds of hectares of prime land for development."
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2 Comments
by Chris, Scunny
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 11:21AM
“Some more land for wind Farms Cllr Mark Kirk, said: "This is the news we have been waiting many years to hear.”
by Jon, crowle
Tuesday, March 16 2010, 7:57AM
“So much for the Humber marshes belng of international importance for wildlife and bird migration
there are ships in America and France that are so contaminated the Indian Goverment will not allow them in, are they coming to Killingholme, Able UK have a contract to scrape one and were given exemption by the Environment Agency Is this site going to be a scrap sorce for Tata scunthrpe now they have closed Redcar
Ragan and Kirk are against clean windfarms
yet they want to turned this high value farm land into a huge scrape asbesdos import exempt recycling centre, this planing aplication is greed and will contaminate this site forever.”