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Can a £5.8bn scheme help revive Grimsby and other town centres?

The Guardian Business Saturday 24 October 2026, 06:00 UTC By Sarah Butler 1 min read
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Turning boarded-up shops into community spaces is a bigger and more complex task than just adding fundingMost levelling up projects still unfinished years after funding allocated“It is nice to see something happening for once,” says Jack Vincent, a Grimsby resident, as he considers a wave of change finally arriving in a town that had become a byword for deprivation. In June, King Charles visited the Lincolnshire coastal town, celebrating the opening of a youth centre in a previously derelict...

Turning boarded-up shops into community spaces is a bigger and more complex task than just adding funding

“It is nice to see something happening for once,” says Jack Vincent, a Grimsby resident, as he considers a wave of change finally arriving in a town that had become a byword for deprivation.

In June, King Charles visited the Lincolnshire coastal town, celebrating the opening of a youth centre in a previously derelict Victorian warehouse building and a Care charity community drop-in centre in a vacant bank on the high street. Scaffolding also shrouds one end of the town’s shopping centre, part of which is being converted to house leisure facilities including a cinema and a food market.

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