City road to close as work begins on homeless shelter
A main road in Lincoln city centre is to be closed for 10 days as part of final preparations to build a shelter for homeless people.
Beaumont Fee will be shut from Tuesday, April 6 until April 10.
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Beaumont Fee will be shut for 10 days for preparations.
The closure is so work to connect utilities for the Nomad Trust's new refuge can be carried out by contractor Lindum.
Ground work for the three-storey 24-bed hostel has included ground contamination tests, archaeological investigation works and relocating the on-site services that feed the neighbouring buildings.
Bringing drain services onto the site is the final stage before building work can start on the centre, which will be known as Pathways.
Development manager Stuart Mitchell said: "Lindum has been working hard since planning permission was granted to finalise the site preparations for the Pathways project.
"Although we have permission for the road closure for 10 days, we will endeavour to get work completed before that."
Hamish Temple, chair of the Nomad Trust, said: "We are very pleased that work is progressing with this important project and look forward to seeing the building take shape."
For more on the closure, see Monday's Echo.
5 Comments
by Jim, carholme
Monday, March 15 2010, 5:09PM
“@ James, Lincoln
would you care to elucidate further on your thesis?
I'm intrigued by how you arrive at such a fascinating conclusion.”
by james, lincoln
Monday, March 15 2010, 2:29PM
“Maybe we should just send all the homeless to Poland or Rumania then we wouldn't have to close our roads at all, and have some extra money to repair them”
by toomuch, Lincoln.
Monday, March 15 2010, 12:47PM
“I agree Julie, in my day it was 5 days too, but modern maths etc”
by Common Sense, Lincoln
Monday, March 15 2010, 12:41PM
“I bet nobody even notices that it's closed - cars can just go down The Avenue, a few hundred yards to the West.
There are just too many little roads criss-crossing Lincoln city centre - rationalise them and close the duplicates permanently. Why have more roads than we need - they just create more junctions!”
by julie, western australia
Monday, March 15 2010, 10:42AM
“6th - 10th April....... isn't that 5 days???”