A bridge to ease sustainable travel to two business parks is back on track.
Highways officials in Grimsby have lodged a new planning application to link Great Grimsby Business Park and Europarc, traversing Town’s Croft Drain.
It would see the current pedestrian facility replaced, with the proposal to allow cycles and buses use.
Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras would be used to deter private motorists, with both served from junctions of the A180.
Plans were originally submitted in October 2019, and as part of the proposal existing bus routes would be redirected, with the aim of increasing use with streamlined services.
Huge seafood processing facilities dominate both parks, with Morrisons and Hilton Seafood (formerly Seachill) soon to be joined by Iceland Seafoods UK in the former Five Star Fish facility. Together they employ well over 3,000 people, with two soup production sites also located there.
The application, which will be considered by North East Lincolnshire Council, reveals how the bridge will connect Europarc at Genesis Way with the Great Grimsby Business Park on Laforey Road.
Both were previously linked privately when Bakkavor owned neighbouring sites on both parks.
The plan comes after the £8.5million Humber Link Road was opened late last year, providing a relief route just beyond the business parks, linking the industrial west of Grimsby with Stallingborough and Immingham as part of the £42 million South Humber Industrial Investment Project.
Separating the two is a single railway line that had been mooted for re-use, running between Grimsby and Immingham docks.
Cycling investments are also being made, with a similar route for bikes being pursued with funding released to encourage the green recovery.
