£8.5M Humber Link Road now open between Grimsby and Immingham

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The new £8.5 million Humber Link Road, between Grimsby and Immingham, has now opened to the public.

With a 20-minute reduced travel time, the 2.5km highway unites the towns’ important port complexes.

Part of North East Lincolnshire Council’s £42m SHIIP (South Humber Industrial Investment Programme), the 96-week build was managed by the authority’s regeneration partner ENGIE.

It was carried out in three phases with the first phase opening-up a direct route to land with attractive Enterprise Zone status.

The remainder replaced an unadopted stretch of private road ending at Humber Gate.

More than 100 trees have been planted along the fully lit stretch with thousands of tonnes of recycled products used.

Bus stops, and cycle and pedestrian pathways have also been installed and it is set to become part of North East Lincolnshire’s new ‘cycle-superhighway’, a funded project to vastly improve the area’s cycle network.

North East Lincolnshire Council Leader Cllr Philip Jackson said: “The opening of this road is very much welcomed.

“It opens-up a tranche of land for future investment along the South Humber Bank, and supports the green agenda with a shorter route between Grimsby and Immingham taking heavy traffic away from the A180.

“It is also an example of the way in which we are investing in infrastructure right across the area.”

Cllr Stewart Swinburn, Cabinet member for Environment and Transport, said:

“The opening of this road is a great advantage to both business and the community. With reduced travel time it offers easier access for everyone between the two towns and their ports. It is yet another huge improvement that has been realised thanks to the SHIIP programme, which along with Pioneer Business Park, the new myenergi building and the mitigation sites, just shows what can be done.”

Pat Doody, Chair of the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership, added: “We are pleased to have invested £2m into this strategically important infrastructure scheme for the South Humber Bank.

“It will provide enhanced access arrangements to a number of new employment sites within the South Humber Gateway area, enabling new businesses to locate here and creating new jobs.

“The link road, which connects the ports of Grimsby and Immingham and reduces port traffic on other roads, was enabled via additional LEP investment of £2m towards the creation of strategic ecological mitigation sites in the area.

“Under the Government’s Getting Building Fund, we are also funding a cycle superhighway between Grimsby and Immingham to the value of £2.2m.

“Once all these schemes have been completed, £6.22m will have been invested in infrastructure between the two strategic port complexes by the Greater Lincolnshire LEP.”