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Hull
English Partnerships is a founding partner of Hull Forward, an Economic Regeneration Company. We work both in partnership and also directly through ownership of strategic sites in the Fruit Market and on the East Bank of the River Hull.
The current key projects are The Boom and The Fruit Market.
The Boom
The first phase of this project will bring forward over 400 one & two bed apartments in four blocks, a £10m Premier Inn hotel, shops offices, restaurants, cafes and car parking on a 0.78 ha site on the East Bank of the River Hull. This project will linked to the City Centre by a £6.6m iconic footbridge funded by Yorkshire Forward the Regional Development Agency.
The Fruit Market
The regeneration area is some 4.7 ha in total, comprised of 140 properties. The premises have for some time been no longer suited to the modern day needs of the traders leading to low levels of usage of buildings, and the activities are totally incompatible with plans to regenerate Hull City Centre and attract mixed use development including opportunities for people to live in and adjoining the centre.
The redevelopment of the Fruit Market will:
- Recover the distinctive spirit and vitality of this severed part of the Old Town Conservation Area;
- Encourage people to live in and close to the City Centre in a vibrant mixed community;
- Deepen the city’s strengths in the developing creative industries sector;
- Keep Hull’s economy growing by retaining the skilled and qualified needed by Hull’s innovation-intensive businesses;
- Provide conducive conditions for stimulating the development and growth of the city centre’s small business community; and
- Provide high quality office accommodation to attract sustainable knowledge based businesses.
Gateway
We are working to deliver a better environment for the people of Hull through better housing in sustainable communities. English Partnerships is a member of Gateway, a Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder for Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, established under the Sustainable Communities Plan.
Over the next three years, £500m is being made available for some of the worst affected areas, known as Pathfinder Market Renewal areas, with the intention of reversing low demand by 2010.
