Millions of pounds worth of new upgrades at Newcastle’s Grainger Market should start later this year.
As a long-running restoration saga over the market’s roof finally draws to a close, much to the delight of traders and shoppers, focus is now very much on to how to spend a Levelling Up Fund grant to spruce up the historic site. For newer customers, the city centre market has become almost unrecognisable this week compared to its previous scaffolding-dominated state – with light now streaming through the entirety of the barrelled glass roof that had gone unseen for years during a troubled construction project.
But the work to breathe new life into the Geordie institution is far from finished. Newcastle City Council bosses have confirmed that they expect another set of improvements to get underway in the autumn, funded by £7m of Levelling Up money and an extra £2m from the local authority itself.
