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Work to build Fleetwood's new, £8m, purpose-built 42,000 square foot modern commercial food processing facility is now complete.
The next phase of the project will enable the first tenants to move into their new premises on the site at Fleetwood Dock, expected to be March 2024.
The Neptune Food and Fish Processing Park has been purpose built to create a new home for some of the
current fish processing businesses in the port and work is underway to prepare the units for the first tenants to move in.
Lease agreements were entered into in August 2023 and work is now underway to fit out to the brand new units with high spec, ultramodern amenities, including a new fish auction hall and processing factory.
There also also plans for a new Training Academy, aimed at helping to boost Fleetwood's economy, safeguard the existing fish processing industry jobs, create up to 100 new jobs and maintain the town's historic
links with fishing and the sea. Over the past three years approximately £8m has been invested to enable the build of the new facility, which will help to revive Fleetwood Docks and secure the future of Fleetwood's rich fishing heritage.
A collaborative approach has enabled the successful delivery of the project, led by Wyre Council in partnership with Associated British Ports (ABP)and facilitated by the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership.
Capital investment has come from Wyre Council and combined grant funding from the UK Government's
Getting Building Fund, Lancashire County Council's
Lancashire Economic Recovery and Growth Fund.
In 2022 Artal Construction Consultants were appointed to act on behalf of the...