About the Combined County Authority

The new GLCCA will receive:

• A £720m investment fund (£24m per year for 30 years) to invest in key priority areas of infrastructure and skills development.
• £2m capacity funding.
• £1m skills for job funding.
• Local control over the £20m+ Adult Education Budget.
• A consolidated, multi-year transport fund, providing increased financial certainty.

Constituent councils also received a capital funding pot of £28m which is already having in impact in communities across Lincolnshire.

Projects include:

• Flood prevention works protecting homes and businesses in the Bain Valley – a strategically important location supporting tourism and agriculture.
• A complete rebuild of five-and-a-half miles of Old Roman Bank from the A52 at Sandilands to the North Sea Observatory in Chapel St Leonards creating even better access for tens of thousands of visitors.
• A grant programme within the UK Food Valley ensuring colleges and university support food business access the skills they need now and into the future.
• Cash to drive forward the next phase of development at the 37-acre low carbon business park at Sleaford Moor to attract new business and create space for existing businesses to grow.
• £1.9m to drive forwards the development of a new Transport Hub in Grimsby town centre.
• Cash to fast-track the development of the £50m Freshney Place Market Hall and leisure scheme in Grimsby.
• Essential enabling works setting the stage for thriving new communities to live in new homes in a number of sites across Barton-upon-Humber, Brigg and Scunthorpe.