Plans for new Lincoln Cathedral shop, cafe and visitor centre to go before council
Plans to turn the Old Deanery building at Lincoln Cathedral into a new cafe, education centre, offices and community space will go before council planners next week. The plans, which form part of the £16 million Lincoln Cathedral Connected project, will see the former playground, Grade II listed Old Deanery, stable block and former Minster…
Visuals for the Lincoln Cathedral shop and Cafe, as part of the £16 million Lincoln Cathedral Connected project.
Plans to turn the Old Deanery building at Lincoln Cathedral into a new cafe, education centre, offices and community space will go before council planners next week.
The plans, which form part of the £16 million Lincoln Cathedral Connected project, will see the former playground, Grade II listed Old Deanery, stable block and former Minster School yard area redeveloped.
The new exhibition space as part of the Lincoln Cathedral Connected project.
The north side of the cathedral, which has been mostly hidden from the public, would be given new life with:
Creation of new visitor facilities (shop, cafe, toilets, changing places room)
An Interpretation Centre
Landscaping of the West Front and Dean’s Green to create calm and prayerful public spaces
Renewing and replacing the floodlights, with possibility of changing colours
Conservation of Exchequergate Arch
Conservation of the West Front centre niche, Gallery of Kings and Romanesque Frieze
Planning documents state that no objections of representations were received by members of the public in response to the plans.
It has been recommended that City of Lincoln Council’s planning committee approves the plans at its meeting on December 14.
Image: Simpson Brown Architects
Project partners expect to hear whether they’ve secured a bid for £12.4 million of funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund in January.
Surveying work is planned to begin on site in Spring 2017 and building work will commence from 2018. The project should be finished by 2020.
In preparation for the work to come, Connected has already lead to a selection of historic artefacts and stories being unearthed on the site.
Ancient skeletons and artefacts were found during test pit digs in July, and the cathedral’s than suspects that many more interesting finds will crop up as work continues.
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The body of a missing 69-year-old man has been found in the North Lincolnshire town of Barton upon Humber.
Humberside Police released an appeal earlier this week to help find John Smith, who had been missing since 5.30pm on Wednesday, July 28.
Sadly, officers were called to reports of a body found near to Far Ings Road on Thursday, July 29. The body has since been identified as that of John Smith. Police said his death is not being treated as suspicious.
Humberside Police said: “John’s family have been informed and specialist officers are continuing to support them.
“Our thoughts remain with them at this extremely difficult time. His death is not being treated as suspicious.”
Police are investigating the death of a 74-year-old man who is believed to have been struck by a car in Gainsborough late on Friday night.
One of Lincolnshire Police’s officers was flagged down by a motorist on Middlefield Lane to report a man seriously injured in the road at around 11.15pm on July 30.
Paramedics treated him at the scene but, despite their best efforts, the man was pronounced dead a short time later. Police said his next of kin have been informed and are being assisted by specially trained officers.
Police added that their enquiries suggest that a Renault Clio, dating from 2006 onwards, may have been involved.
The force are urging anyone who was either driving a Renault Clio on Friday night, or who saw a vehicle matching the description in the area, to contact them.
Anyone who has information or who saw the incident, or has dashcam footage, should contact police on 101 or via email at [email protected] quoting incident number 523 of July 30.
Alternatively, it can be reported through the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111 or online here.
There have been 2,592 new cases of coronavirus so far this week in Lincolnshire as concern rises over future travel restrictions.
The government’s COVID-19 dashboard on Friday reported 458 new cases in Lincolnshire, 93 in North East Lincolnshire and 75 in North Lincolnshire.
The figure is 2% higher than last Friday’s 612 cases – but 18% down on the 3,130 cases by this time last week.
NHS figures have reported two further hospital deaths in Northern Lincolnshire and Goole hospitals trust on Friday – bringing the weekly tally across Greater Lincolnshire’s hospitals to six.
Government figures, however, showed four further updates to their deaths data, bringing the total for the week to 10.
Nationally, cases increased by 29,622 to 5,830,774 while deaths rose by 85 to a total of 129,583.
Across England, the R number has fallen slightly to between 1.1. and 1.4 – last week it was between 1.2 and 1.4.
Meanwhile, data from the Office for National Statistics across the week ending July 24 showed approximately one in 65 people in England were estimated to have had coronavirus.
Lincolnshire’s coronavirus cases up to July 30.
The government has come under attack from French ministers today after placing the country on an “amber plus” travel list.
UK officials say the move is due to a new Beta variant, with transport secretary Grant Shapps defending the move to Sky News, he called the new variant a “big concern”.
It has left France adrift in terms of the UK’s quarantine rules with all the surrounding EU countries having self-isolation requirements removed from August 2.
Fully vaccinated visitors from the United States will also be able to arrive without needing to quarantine from that date.
Coronavirus data for Greater Lincolnshire on Friday, July 29
80,799 cases (up 626)
52,761 in Lincolnshire (up 458)
12,431 in North Lincolnshire (up 75)
15,607 in North East Lincolnshire (up 93)
2,216 deaths (up four)
1,630 from Lincolnshire (up one)
304 from North Lincolnshire (no change)
282 from North East Lincolnshire (up three)
of which 1,326 hospital deaths (up two)
820 at United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust (up one)
43 at Lincolnshire Community Health Service hospitals (no change)
1 at Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust (no change)
462 in Northern Lincolnshire (NLAG) (up two)
5,830,774 UK cases, 129,583 deaths
DATA SOURCE — FIGURES CORRECT AT THE TIME OF THE LATEST UPDATE. POSTCODE DATA INCLUDES DEATHS NOT IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES OR IN HOSPITALS OUTSIDE AUTHORITY BOUNDARIES.
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