Holbeach Food Enterprise Zone progresses with work to start soon of 'Centre of Excellence'

Published: 14:49, 01 May 2020

| Updated: 14:53, 01 May 2020

Work on a new £7million food research and development site in Holbeach is set to reach an important phase later this month.

A "steel frame installation" for the Centre of Excellence in Agri-food Technology, part of the South Lincolnshire Food Enterprise Zone (FEZ) at Peppermint Park, is due to go up over the coming weeks.

Groundworks at the site off the A17 has been taking place since a ceremony to officially start construction of the centre was held in mid-March.

Shradha Mishra, project manager at the University of Lincoln, Professor Val Braybrooks, dean of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, Coun Nick Worth and Simon Wright, of Lincolnshire County Council, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Technology, Holbeach. Photo: SG-160320-107TW.

A spokesman for the University of Lincoln, which will manage the FEZ when it is completed, said: "Work continues to progress on the construction of the Centre of Excellence in Agri-food Technology, Holbeach, and Willmott Dixon, the contractor, will be commencing work on the steel frame installation in May, whilst elements of the groundworks are currently being completed."

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