Developer to progress with £250m leisure and stadium plans

Developer Extreme Leisure will be going ahead with the construction of £250m stadium and leisure development in Grimsby.

The company has completed an early stage viability assessment of the Community Stadium and said they are “satisfied” with the project.

The £55m stadium will have a capacity of 14,000 and house Grimsby Town Football Club. It will have an ice rink, sports and leisure facilities and food and beverage offerings and an affordable residential aspect has also been included.

The level of investment for the stadium and leisure project Project and enabling developments are expected to be in excess of £250m, with 600 full time positions (excluding the construction phase) being created.

Alistair Gosling, chairman at EXTREME said: “We were delighted to be invited to give an informal presentation to Councillors across all parties yesterday (Feb 7th) where we were able to outline, discuss and answer questions over our vision to provide a Community Stadium and the enabling developments within North East Lincolnshire.

“Members raised a number of issues with us, which we understand and which we will seek to address as we move forward; we felt it was a very positive and progressive discussion and hopefully will be the first steps in engaging with the wider community on our exciting plans.

“We now look forward to hopefully seeing the Council’s Cabinet report on the next steps later this month.”

Grimsby Town FC director, John Fenty added: “I’m delighted that Extreme have had an opportunity to communicate directly with Councillors, in a two-way communication during their presentation.

“This has enabled clarification of opportunities for a scheme that has huge potential, to not only deliver a New Community Stadium, but to include other leisure facilities and much needed affordable homes within the borough. A project of this nature to progress needs timely decisions in order to make the most of opportunities that currently present themselves.”