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NEWS & EVENTS
New Cathedral café now open... £16m PROJECT TO TRANSFORM LINCOLN CATHEDRAL IS NOW NEAR COMPLETION LINCOLN The Cathedral is looking forward to welcoming visitors into its new café as Pride goes to press, having announced a partnership with Meadow Brown Restaurants to run the café in the new visitors’ centre adjacent to the Dean’s Green, which opened late last year for the first time in 40 years, previously under the stewardship of Lincoln Minster School. Meadow Brown is an independent, family owned business which operates several cafés and restaurants at locations including Nene Park and Nottingham Castle. Their approach is based on creating wholesome, exciting cuisine from high-quality local ingredients. The menu at Lincoln Cathedral Café will offer high-quality, healthy food, sourced from local suppliers. The tasty and creative menu will include breakfasts, light
bites and hearty main courses, through to afternoon teas and tasty treats. The café is at the heart of a £16m restoration project over the last five years, and will offer an enhanced visitor
£20m plans for Boston EXCITING PLANS TO REGENERATE AND REVITALISE BOSTON’S TOWN CENTRE...
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experience for tourists, worshippers and the local community. It was restored as part of the Lincoln Cathedral Connected project which comprised a restoration of the Cathedral’s Romanesque
Frieze and cloister walls, and will also see a state of the art visitor centre with community rooms, exhibition spaces, new toilets and learning spaces to discover more about the Cathedral. n
BOSTON Exciting plans to regenerate and revitalise Boston’s town centre have been included as part of Boston Borough Council’s £20m bid to the Government’s Levelling Up Fund. Over recent months the Borough Council has been working with partners to develop a bid that focusses on town centre regeneration and seeks to increase footfall, attract visitors, and enhance the look and feel of the area. Plans include the creation of a new integrated hub and learning centre to create sustainable employment and
help increase footfall within the core of the town. The development of a new urban living area with contemporary housing, hospitality and retail uses is also included and will create a new town centre space with bespoke development of retail and civic uses. Finally, a town centre ‘greening project’ will undertake urban landscaping to create a park area within the town centre and market place. The Borough Council anticipates hearing the outcome of their bid from government in the Autumn. n
