£175,632 has been awarded to the City of Lincoln Council in partnership with Lincoln BIG and Visit Lincoln
The grant was part of the government’s Welcome Back Fund. This provides cities across England with £56 million to support safe return to highstreets after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The money will be used to clean-up the city centre.
Some of the improvements include a deep clean of the pavement on the High Street, restoring benches, putting up anti-littering posters, replanting flower beds and designing new signage throughout the city centre.
Lincoln BIG operations manager Lee Roberts said: “The work we have done so far has already benefitted the city by targeting the hot spots that needed cleaning and beginning to put the new signage around the city.”
The City of Lincoln Council and Lincoln BIG have worked closely to prioritise the funding to areas that need the most development.
“Overall the funding will benefit the city, making it more welcoming for people and letting them know the city is safer in terms of COVID.” Mr Roberts said.
K.Fines is a small jewellery business in Lincoln’s city centre owned by Emma Morehouse.
Improvements to the city centre aim to increase tourism and boost the local economy after post-pandemic.
“Hopefully this will bring more people to Lincoln as a shopping destination. I don’t think people realise that there has been a lot of work done in the past few years and you can actually spend a day or two just shopping alone.” Emma said.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, small business have been directly affected by the lack of custom due to a number of lockdown implications.
“Due to COVID our business didn’t have an opening launch, this massively concerned us as people didn’t know we existed.” Emma told LSJ News.
To find out more about upcoming events in Lincoln head to the Visit Lincoln website.
