A £1.5 million scheme to support the transformation of an abandoned dockyard in Barrow have taken a step forward.
The proposal would see improvements to the Salthouse Road-Cavendish Dock Road junction.
A council report says the work will facilitate future development by providing a second access to the proposed Barrow Waterfront site.
A company to carry out the work has now been selected – although its identity is not revealed in council documents. The £1.5m was secured via the Government’s Brownfield Land Release Fund, which is intended to help brownfield sites be brought back into use courtesy of housing development.
“The funding will also allow an electrical substation on the eastern side of the site to be relocated to further facilitate development,” says a report from Steph Cordon, the borough council’s director of people and place.
“Barrow Borough Council will procure and oversee the design phase of the work. The delivery of the junction improvement will take place in summer 2023.”
The report has been produced ahead of a meeting of the council’s executive committee today.
Ms Cordon advises the executive committee to award the design tender for the junction to the successful company.
The Barrow Waterfront – formerly Marina Village – scheme is aiming to regenerate an area off Salthouse Road and Cavendish Dock Road.
The Brilliant Barrow group, which began as a bid to win funding from the Government’s Towns Fund, says ‘high-quality mixed homes’ are to eventually sit side by side with wildlife habitats.
Stuart Klosinski, an economic development consultant based in the Furness area, said on a previous occasion: “It’s another essential step in the transformation of Barrow as a whole, in particular the arc of development that runs from Jubilee Bridge all the way over towards Salthouse Mills and the gas terminal.
“That’s going to be a main driver of change and growth and new housing for the rest of this decade.”
Mr Klosinski said it was his understanding that Barrow Borough Council would encourage developers to ‘provide a range of housing solutions’.
