PLANS FOR A BETTER BRIGG - BY THE MEN IN CHARGE

The Newlands estate in Brigg is to see a £1.2 million investment in improved drainage and roads.

There's much of interest in the latest issue of the In Touch newsletter, covering Brigg and Wolds and produced by "your local team" of Conservatives - Couns Carl & Nigel Sherwood, Coun Rob Waltham and MP Andrew Percy. Copies are now being delivered to households in Brigg and district.
Information of note includes:

• The Brigg Relief Road
• Big plans for the Ancholme
• Brigg Recreation Ground
• Highway repairs to begin on Newlands housing estate
• Extra police resources
• Free book gifting scheme launched
• Jobs Fair success at the Angel
• New 'welcome' signs

If you aren't getting a copy delivered, contact the MP's office at 40 Bigby Street or have a word with any of the Brigg and Wolds Ward councillors mentioned earlier. They are all cabinet members of the North Lincolnshire authority. Andrew's email is brigg.goole@gmail.com

NOTE: Brigg Blog does not have any political affiliation. We select information we think will be of interest to our followers, based purely on its news value. We made the same point on a recent story about Labour politicians paying a visit to Brigg Market Place.

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£1.2m TO BE SPENT IMPROVING BRIGG HOUSING ESTATE

Some £1.2 million is to be spent on the Newlands housing estate in Brigg to resurface roads and improve drainage, North Lincolnshire Council has revealed. This work will improve the roads dramatically, the authority says. 
Brigg Blog drove down a number of Newlands roads at the weekend and there's a definitive need for investment, particularly in  Elm Way's roads being particularly bad. 
The Newlands estate was built in the 1930s, in the days of Brigg Urban District Council, rehousing many people who lived in crowded courtyards off Wrawby Street and the Market Place.
These days the Newlands properties that have not been sold off under The Right to Buy Scheme are controlled by North Lincolnshire Homes - our area's social landlord. But although North Lincolnshire Council no longer manages homes on the estate it is still responsible for the infrastructure. Hence this considerable investment.
The £1.2 million programme was revealed at a meeting of Brigg Town Council during the part  in which our trio of North Lincolnshire Council Cabinet members - Couns Nigel and Carl Sherwood and Coun Rob Waltham - deliver a report, collectively or individually, on what's to come and what's been achieved. 
Coun Ann Eardley immediately pointed out flooding problems in the Kingsway area of the estate. Hopefully this can be sorted before, or during, the enhancement project.

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