Construction underway at £45m residential site
Work is underway on a large residential site with developer E5 Living UK enlisting the help of Greater Grimsby MP Lia Nici to launch the project.
The first phase of King’s Park, in Scartho, will see 78 bungalows built by constructor JemBuild.
E5 director Kevin Stevens was on site with JemBuild managing director Paul Barker as Nici unveiled the names of the roads on the new village-style community, located next to Grimsby’s Diana, Princess of Wales hospital.
The roads – Williams Way and Harrys Drive – that run off the newly named King’s Park Road have been named in tribute to the princess’s sons.
A retail centre including a convenience store will serve the new neighbourhood.
The homes are part of a wider £45m scheme with outline planning permission for apartments for the over-55s and ‘step down’ and social care unit to support patients leaving hospital but who require on-going nursing care before returning home.
Stevens said: “It’s been a difficult year with Covid and restrictions and the builders have had to cope with a lot.
“We’ve had supplier issues like everybody throughout the UK but progress is happening and so far it’s going very well.
“We are on target to deliver everything within two years so we have some challenges but so far, so good.”
Barker added: “We’re currently working on five sites across the region but King’s Park is our largest project.
“It’s a great scheme for local businesses securing an initial two years of work which is rare in the construction industry and ultimately will offer huge benefit to the local community.
“We have experienced significant supply chain issues with shortages in blocks, plaster and timber with potential shortages in insulation but good procurement has avoided delays to the project with the industry shortages.
“Fortunately, the 500,000 bricks for the whole development were purchased at project commencement in March 2020 so at least we won’t run out of bricks!”
King’s Park was designed by Cleethorpes-based Hodson Architects, is being built by Humberston firm JemBuild and marketed by Crofts Estate Agents, which has offices in Cleethorpes, Immingham and Louth.
