{"id":49054,"date":"2018-11-13T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=49054"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T15:28:21","slug":"5m-scheme-to-regenerate-historic-hull-dock-and-flood-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/5m-scheme-to-regenerate-historic-hull-dock-and-flood-defences\/49054\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a35m scheme to regenerate historic Hull dock and flood defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div class=\"column-two-thirds\">\n<div class=\"gem-c-title gem-c-title--margin-bottom-5\">\n<h1>A construction project to regenerate a historic riverside dock and to improve flood defences has started in Hull<\/h1>\n<p>The Hull+ scheme is a collaboration between Hull City Council and the Environment Agency. The \u00a35 million investment is set to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/energy-news\/environmentally-friendly-construction\/48311\/\">environmental<\/a> enhancements to the\u00a0Dock Office Row area and to better protect\u00a02,000 commercial properties with improved flood defences.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Environment Agency, it is envisaged that the work will generate additional investor confidence in the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div class=\"column-two-thirds content-bottom-margin\">\n<div class=\"responsive-bottom-margin\">\n<div class=\"gem-c-govspeak govuk-govspeak direction-ltr\">\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The scheme will implement the \u00a327.4m Hull: Yorkshire\u2019s Maritime City project being delivered by Hull City Council.<\/p>\n<p>A grant of \u00a315 million from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlf.org.uk\/\">Heritage Lottery Fund<\/a> helped enable the project.<\/p>\n<p>Hull+ project manager Paul Ahdal, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\">Environment Agency<\/a>, said:\u00a0&#8220;As well as improving flood defences in the area we hope the scheme will help provide a springboard for development and help continue to attract tourists to the city following the success of Hull 2017 City of Culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth Minister, Jake Berry MP, said: &#8220;I am really pleased to see this vital scheme coming together, delivering jobs and flood improvements for local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a great example of the Government working in partnership with the Council to stimulate growth through infrastructure and heritage investment in the Northern Powerhouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of work will see the removal of silt from the dry dock area off Dock Office Row which will be re-used to manufacture building bricks.<\/p>\n<p>This will allow the Arctic Corsair to be relocated to the area after being renovated by contractors for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hull.gov.uk\/\">Hull City Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Hull+ scheme compliments a number of other projects in the area which include the River Hull Defences, delivered by the Environment Agency, and the Hull: Yorkshire\u2019s Maritime City project, delivered by Hull City Council.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A construction project to regenerate an historic riverside dock area and to improve flood defenses\u00a0in hull received a \u00a35m investment to begin the works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,595,851,579,669],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-flood-resilience","9":"tag-flooding","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-regeneration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u00a35m scheme to regenerate historic Hull dock and flood defences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A construction project to regenerate a historic riverside dock area and to improve flood defenses\u00a0in hull, received a \u00a35m investment to begin the works.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/5m-scheme-to-regenerate-historic-hull-dock-and-flood-defences\/49054\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u00a35m scheme to regenerate historic Hull dock and flood defences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A construction project to regenerate a historic riverside dock area and to improve flood defenses\u00a0in hull, received a \u00a35m investment to begin the works.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/5m-scheme-to-regenerate-historic-hull-dock-and-flood-defences\/49054\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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