Memorandum submitted by Lincolnshire County
Council
BRITISH WATERWAYS'
INVOLVEMENT IN
GRANTHAM
A strong partnership approach has been developed
to bring forward development of the Canal Basin area in Grantham,
Lincolnshire, within the broader Growth Point Programme of Development
for Grantham.
The Canal Basin area scheme is an ambitious
area based regeneration scheme, which aims to re-establish a Canal
Basin in the town and provide quality mixed-use development around
the basin. The development area is a brownfield site adjacent
to the town centre and a housing area that suffers from deprivation.
Long term, the aim is to link the canal basin to the Grantham-Nottingham
Canal. The approach, therefore, is very much focused on development
and regeneration, rather than canal restoration.
Lincolnshire County Council, South Kesteven
District Council and British Waterways have been working in partnership
to take forward development. We have jointly funded and carried
out a feasibility study for the Canal Basin regeneration area,
which has examined the potential scale and mix of development,
in the context of the wider Growth agenda for Grantham which aims
to provide balanced, sustainable growth for an expanded town.
British Waterways has played a full and proactive
role in the partnership to produce an economic case for the broad
based regeneration scheme, and the detailed feasibility, not only
of the canal basin itself, but the wider mixed-use scheme. Since
that work, British Waterways have committed funding to site development
to facilitate development in the area and continues to work with
the Local Authorities, and other partners, in a very positive
way, to bring forward the overall scheme.
Lincolnshire County Council
March 2008
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