Over the course of the last 12 months, the Lincoln skyline has changed and continues to do so with more construction in line. Businesses across the city have expanded with purpose-built sites and revitalised old buildings. The city centre has undergone drastic changes, which has included road layouts and work is underway to change the…
Over the course of the last 12 months, the Lincoln skyline has changed and continues to do so with more construction in line.
Businesses across the city have expanded with purpose-built sites and revitalised old buildings.
The city centre has undergone drastic changes, which has included road layouts and work is underway to change the way the High Street looks, bringing bigger store names to the city.
Here’s a recap of some of the biggest developments in Lincoln:
Lincoln Transport Hub
Designs for the new Lincoln Transport Hub. Image: CoLC
Councillors started to consider plans for the new £29 million Lincoln Transport Hub back in January. After several revisions, plans were finally agreed in March.
Once complete, the new hub will create 1,000 new car parking spaces, a new bus station and railway improvements.
Work on the new Transport Hub is still underway and is expected to be completed in early 2018.
A place for shopping
The first designs for the new Lincoln St Marks development, including shops, a hotel and accommodation.
It was announced in November that St Marks shopping precinct is in line for a £150 million revamp, with plans to demolish the western section to make way for new shops, a hotel and flats.
The plans would see around eight businesses pulled down and replaced, including Toys R Us, Toby Carvery, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Homebase, the former Lidl and a two-storey car park.
Proposals will be considered by the city’s planning department at a later date.
Cornhill vision
Artist impression of the new look Cornhill Quarter
The first three national retailers have been confirmed for the £70 million Cornhill Quarter regeneration and will be opening in summer 2017.
Work has begun to transform The Lawn into a £2 million coffee firm HQ.
After nearly two years of planning and bidding, the keys to Lincoln’s iconic site and buildings at The Lawn were officially handed over to RW Stokes & Sons to create its new £2 million head office in August.
Work officially started in December to convert the former ‘lunatic asylum’ off Union Road to include new café, coffee roastery, restaurant, offices, shops, a barista training centre and a theatre, as well as serving as the new headquarters for the Lincoln based company.
Green space at the site has also been turned into more car parking spaces.
The proposed new Lidl supermarket in North Hykeham.
Despite objections from local residents, a third Lidl was approved for the Lincoln on the site of the former Ocean Chinese Restaurant in North Hykeham in January.
The Lidl at the Carlton Centre is set to move across the road to the former bakery and hand car wash site on Deacon Road as Lincolnshire Co-op, who owns the site, look to redevelop the shopping precinct bringing in new retailers and jobs.
The current Lidl site will be converted into three separate units.
Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Netto also had a fleeting visit to Lincoln, opening in the former Blockbuster on Lindis Retail Park off Tritton Road, only to close nine months later.
Despite plans for Lincoln’s first purpose-built mosque to be completed in October or November this year, work was halted on the £1.5 million development.
Construction work ceased temporarily in September after the Islamic Association of Lincoln terminated their contract with previous builders, following legal advice.
Tom Blount, Director of the Lincoln Science and Innovation Park invited Lincolnshire Business on an exclusive first tour of the nearly completed building. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
The £6.8 million Boole Technology Centre on the Lincoln Science and Innovation Park started back in February and is now complete awaiting tenants to start moving in at the end of February 2017.
A new place for education
The University of Lincoln Riseholme Campus. Photo: UoL
The University of Lincoln revealed its £20 million masterplan for the redevelopment of the Riseholme campus in March and released a virtual tour of the site in April.
The scheme would include 180 new homes (previously 750) and agri-food and heritage education facilities.
These protests have lead to the government announcing possible legal action against the University of Lincoln for its plans to demolish parts of the current Riseholme College campus to develop housing.
Designs for the University of Lincoln’s Sarah Swift Building. Photo: BAM Construction
Designs were also revealed for the new £12.5 million University of Lincoln Sarah Swift building on the site of the city’s former Pea Warehouse in March, which will house the Schools of Health and Social Care and Psychology.
Construction is set to be completed in May 2017.
One the Brayford
Visuals of ‘One the Brayford’: Stem Architects Ltd
Developers Jackson & Jackson continue to thrive as plans for three new restaurants, luxury apartments and office space on Brayford Wharf were unanimously approved in March.
Work started on the development of the site in August with completion anticipated for Easter 2017.
New to Lincoln
Photo: Sean Strange for The Lincolnite
2016 has seen a host of new businesses open in and around the city including Wildwood, which opened in the former Mall on Lincoln High Street.
Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Lincoln’s new all-you-can-eat Brazilian restaurant Tiago opened in the former late night bar Brewhaus in October.
Staff outside the new Lincoln Côte Brasserie. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
French food lovers are now able to get a table at Côte Brasserie, which opened in February.
Ernie Wetton, owner of Makushi Coffee. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
A new Amazonian tribe-inspired, specialist coffee shop Makushi Coffee Limited opened on Steep Hill in August.
Project manager Hayley Henshall and General Manager Jamie Parnell. Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
A new chippy also opened on the High Street in October after a £100,000 investment.
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There have been 643 new coronavirus cases and 31 COVID-related deaths in Greater Lincolnshire so far this week – compared to 1,005 cases and 26 deaths by this time last week.
The government’s COVID-dashboard on Friday recorded 79 new cases in Lincolnshire, 28 in North East Lincolnshire and 23 in North Lincolnshire.
The latest data takes the total number of cases in Greater Lincolnshire to over 54,000.
On Friday, seven deaths were registered in Lincolnshire. These include deaths both in and out of hospitals, as well as residents in hospitals outside the county.
NHS England reported six new local hospital deaths – five at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and one at Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust. This brings the total of hospital deaths so far this week to 24, a rise from 11 last week.
National cases increased by 5,947 to 4,207,304, while deaths rose by 236 to 124,261.
Nationally, Office for National Statistics data shows that the number of coronavirus infections in the UK continued to fall.
In the seven days up to February 27, around 280,000 people were confirmed positive, a drop of about a third on the most recent date.
The latest R number – the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to – is between 0.7 and 0.9.
From Monday, care home residents will be allowed to have a regular indoor visitor as long as they take a coronavirus lateral flow test before entry and wear personal protective equipment (PPE).
Hugging and kissing their relatives will be forbidden, although hand holding will be permitted.
Elsewhere, meeting up with one other person outdoors – for example sitting together in a park with coffee, drink, or picnic, will also be permitted.
Further relaxation is hoped to happen from March 29, when the rule of six will again be allowed, along with outdoor sports facilities reopening and the stay at home rule ending.
In a press conference on Friday evening health secretary Matt Hancock welcomed the news that a mystery person in the UK infected with the COVID variant of concern first found in Brazil had now been traced.
He said the ‘unbreakable link’ between cases, hospitalisation and deaths was ‘being broken’ due to the vaccine rollout – but added testing still remains ‘critical’.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, March 5
54,126 cases (up 130)
38,170 in Lincolnshire (up 79)
8,149 in North Lincolnshire (up 23)
7,807 in North East Lincolnshire (up 28)
2,105 deaths (up 7)
1,549 from Lincolnshire (up 7)
300 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
256 from North East Lincolnshire (no change)
of which 1,244 hospital deaths (up six)
772 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (up five)
41 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
A Boston man who amassed a collection of thousand of illegal images after becoming addicted to downloading child abuse images was jailed at Lincoln Crown Court on Friday.
Howard Angel was arrested after police raided his home and took away a laptop computer.
Tony Stanford, prosecuting, said that the following day Angel went to Grantham Police Station and confessed.
“He said he had been stupid. He was interviewed. He was relatively frank. He said he wanted help.
“He said ‘I shouldn’t have done it but I did’. He said he became addicted and hooked on it.”
Mr Stanford said that later Angel’s then wife handed police a second laptop which she found in the attic.
When police examined the two laptops they found that Angel had been accessing child abuse images for nine years.
A total of 16,944 illegal images of children were on the devices including 2,641 in the most serious category.
Angel, 59, of Wyberton West Road, Boston, admitted three charges of making indecent images of children between March 2010 and May 2019.
He was jailed for 10 months and given a 15 year sexual harm prevention order. He was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for 10 years.
Recorder Charles Falk, passing sentence, told him: “What tips the balance here is the length of time you have been offending which is nine years.
“That and the fact that this is a very large collection makes this a case that is so serious that only immediate custody can be justified.”
Michael Cranmer-Brown, in mitigation, said that Angel had lost everything as a result of what he did.
“When this came to light his world was turned upside down. He had been in a marriage for over 20 years. He has children. He has effectively been rejected by them all.
“He has been kicked out of his family home and he is now divorced from his wife. In addition he has suffered the loss of his job. Having disclosed to his employer about his conviction he has been sacked.”
Mr Cranmer-Brown said that since his arrest Angel has sought help and urged that he should not receive an immediate prison sentence.
Two slaughtered sheep have been found at a farm in Louth with police investigating a potential illegal butchery.
The animals’ heads and feet were found at Highfield Farm, Cadwell, Louth at around 7.30am on Thursday, March 4.
The carcasses of the sheep were taken, with the head and feet left behind, and police are trying to find those responsible.
It is believed to have happened at some point overnight on Wednesday night into the early hours of Thursday morning.
Sgt James Perring, one of Lincolnshire Police’s Rural, Wildlife and Heritage Crime Officers, said: “This type of crime causes a major impact on the victim, but can also have an impact on the wider community.
“We will not tolerate this sort of criminal behaviour and we are determined to root out those responsible.
“Illegal butchery is a serious offence. Not only are there risks in consuming meat when it isn’t from a reputable source, but illegal butchery can also cause unnecessary suffering to the animal.”
Officers are appealing for information from anyone who may have witnessed anything suspicious, or anyone who may have been offered meat for sale in the area.
If you can assist, call 101 or email [email protected] and quote incident 47 of March 4.
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