South Humber
Grimsby was once the largest fishing port on earth. Cleethorpes is still a proper British seaside. Immingham still moves the country’s fuel and goods. Brigg is a market town on the Ancholme. Broughton sits inland of Brigg. Barton sits at the foot of the Humber Bridge. Goxhill and Barnetby le Wold sit on the roads and rails that feed the port. Between them sit villages, ports and working people who were told that if they voted the right way, something would change.
This page is not a manifesto. Official policy is set nationally. It is a local reading of why those objectives matter here — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes, up through Immingham, Brigg, Broughton, Goxhill and Barnetby le Wold, to Barton-upon-Humber. Not Scunthorpe.
Fishing, seafood processing, the port and nearby Immingham still put food on tables. Offshore energy has arrived; the question is who it is for. Restore Britain’s industrial and economic objectives — reward grafters, rebuild industry and energy security — are not abstract here. They are the difference between a working town and a managed decline.
Economy & taxation Industry & infrastructure Official maritime paperWhen numbers are uncontrolled, the pressure shows up first in places that already wait longest for a house, a dentist, or a school place. Reverse mass immigration is a national objective. Locally it means being honest that South Humber — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes up to Immingham, Brigg, Broughton, Barton-upon-Humber, Goxhill and Barnetby — cannot absorb unlimited extra demand and still look after the people already here.
Immigration & bordersFreeman Street, the town centre and the Cleethorpes front tell their own story: empty units, anti-social behaviour, and a public that is tired of being told it is imagining it. Safe streets are not a luxury. Families and traders should be able to use their own high street.
Law & orderPeople here use the same NHS as everywhere else, and they feel it when it does not work. Restore the National Health Service is a national objective. Locally it means access, waiting lists, and a service that treats this area as worth serving.
HealthcareThis is a British town. The Dock Tower, the seafront, the churches, the language, the humour, the expectation that you look after your own — that is the culture. Restore Britain’s social and cultural objectives exist because that inheritance has been treated as optional. It is not optional here.
Culture & identityChildren should be taught the country they live in. Adults should be able to say so. Elections should be secure. Those are national objectives; they apply in every classroom and polling station in this borough.
Education Student loan interest paper School fines paper Civil liberties Election integrityThese are live local arguments, not slogans. The facts are on the public record — from Grimsby and Cleethorpes, through Immingham, Brigg, Broughton, Goxhill and Barnetby le Wold, to Barton-upon-Humber. Not Scunthorpe. What we do about them is why this branch exists.
The Market Place has been fought over at council for years. Traders were told parking would be stripped out and the square pedestrianised as part of a £4.5 million Levelling Up scheme. Work started on 18 May 2026. The new Reform-led council then said it had grave concerns, looked at scrapping it, and concluded cancellation would cost taxpayers too much because contracts were already signed. Cabinet on 15 July 2026 voted to keep 12 seasonal short-stay bays and a two-year trial of an hour’s free parking at St Peter’s Avenue and Victoria car parks, without a further formal consultation — estimated extra cost about £160,000, mostly lost parking income. Scrutiny had recommended a consultation; that was called in again in August. That is the saga: a seaside square pulled between drawings, traders, and a scheme already on site.
The Grade II listed Corporation Road Bridge shut in February 2023. It is a main way into Grimsby town centre, over the Freshney. It was supposed to reopen before Christmas 2023. Then summer 2025. The original bill was just over £5 million; the council leader has said it is now around £10.5 million because the structure was in worse condition than expected. The first contractor was dropped for delays. Taziker has been on site since autumn 2025. The latest public target is still December 2026. In June 2026 the council leader said engineering approvals were not keeping up with work on site — a risk to the date, not a confirmed delay. Three years and counting. A town cannot function with its river crossing left hanging.
Industry & infrastructureNobody in this borough voted to become a Home Office dispersal area. Contractors are attracted by cheap houses, which then get turned into HMOs. The latest Home Office snapshot, 30 June 2026, puts 267 people on asylum support in North East Lincolnshire — 253 in dispersal housing in the community, 14 on subsistence only, and none in hotels. That is down a little from 282 at the end of March, but still far above 141 at the end of 2023. Mears holds the regional accommodation contract. The council leader wrote to the Immigration Minister calling the borough a dumping ground. At Full Council the Reform motion to ask Government to opt out of compulsory dispersal, and to review withdrawal from voluntary resettlement including the Afghan scheme, was defeated 22–12. The leader told the chamber there are about 60–70 houses in the borough used for the scheme. That is the scheme people mean: national policy, dropped on a coastal town that was never asked, and the council as a whole would not even write to ask to stop it.
Asylum numbers by area Immigration & borders Detention estate paperAlmost a thousand potholes were reported to the council in 2025. Another winter then tore more of the surface up. The authority says it is filling dozens a day and has extra government money; drivers still know the roads that wreck wheels and dodge the same craters for months. If a council cannot keep the carriageway in one piece, it is not a side issue. It is the first thing people see of whether anyone is in charge.
Industry & infrastructureFreeman Street, Hainton Avenue and the rest of the high street keep sprouting the same three units: a vape shop, a convenience store, a barber — often with the lights on and nobody in them. That is not a functioning town centre. Trading Standards and police keep raiding local shops for illicit tobacco and illegal vapes: tens of thousands of cigarettes, hundreds of vapes, whole hauls in a single premises. Nationally the same pattern is now linked to organised crime, illegal working and money laundering. Residents have been saying it for years. Enforcement should match what people can see with their own eyes.
Law & orderGrimsby’s town-centre footfall fell by about two-thirds in a decade. Vacancy has sat above the national average for years. Regeneration money comes and goes. What people walk past is still shut units, a tired street, and the sense that the town was allowed to go. A British high street should be for British shopkeepers and customers, not a graveyard of failed retail and the same copy-and-paste frontages.
Economy & taxationCleethorpes North Promenade has had years of racing, wheel-spins and stereo noise. Residents have said they cannot live a normal life next to it. The council and police have put in cameras. That should not have taken this long. A seaside town that cannot keep its own front civil is not looking after the people who live there or the visitors who keep it going.
Law & orderOn 25 September 2026 the Housing Minister, Matthew Pennycook, wrote to North East Lincolnshire Council directing it to progress its Local Plan and start Regulation 19 consultation by 30 September 2026. That is the stage where the draft plan is published for formal objection. Housing numbers, town-centre sites and what gets built on this coast will be argued in that document. A plan imposed on a timetable from Westminster still has to be about the people who live here.
The minister’s letterThis is the hospital this coast depends on. It has carried a poor CQC history and, like the rest of the NHS, still misses the four-hour A&E standard more often than it meets it. Waiting lists are not an abstraction when you live in Grimsby or Cleethorpes. Restore the NHS means this hospital working for the people who pay for it.
HealthcareThis branch covers the south bank as far as Barton-upon-Humber, inland to Brigg and Broughton, and villages including Goxhill, Barnetby le Wold and Elsham. Those places are not a footnote to Grimsby. They have their own fights on the public record. This branch does not cover Scunthorpe.
The Port of Immingham handles around 56 million tonnes a year. A new eastern roll-on, roll-off terminal has been approved as nationally significant infrastructure, adding berths and capacity on the Humber. ABP’s Helm @ Immingham is now on site at Stallingborough Interchange: the first 103,000 sq ft of a 227-acre industrial scheme, with steel signed in June 2026 and completion of that first phase talked about for October. The town that lives next to that port still has to get its own bins collected, its own high street safe, and its own roads open. National infrastructure is not a substitute for a working town.
Industry & infrastructure Official maritime paperImmingham and Habrough were awarded £20 million over ten years through the Government’s Pride in Place programme, with Stallingborough brought into the fund too. Pop-up events are asking residents how it should be spent. That is the right question for the full ten years, not just the launch photo. A port town that keeps the country’s fuel and goods moving deserves to see that money land on its own streets.
Economy & taxationWorks on the A1173 between King’s Road roundabout and Kiln Lane roundabout, including North Beck Bridge, began on 24 August 2026. The main phase, 1 September to 9 October 2026, is a 24-hour closure with diversions via the A160 and A180: bridge repairs, waterproofing, resurfacing. That stretch carries Immingham’s port traffic as well as everyone who lives there. Close it and the town feels it immediately.
Industry & infrastructureImmingham held a public meeting in June 2026 with Humberside Police, the council and the local MP after concerns about anti-social behaviour, intimidation and alcohol-related disorder in the town centre. Residents and traders should be able to use their own streets. A meeting is a start. The test is whether it changes what people actually see.
Law & orderResidents of South End, Goxhill, have been raising HGV traffic for years — including reports of dozens of lorry movements in an hour, and vehicles meeting on a road that cannot take them both. North Lincolnshire Council hired Pell Frischmann for traffic counts, then a further £6,300 report. A draft was due with the council in late February to early March 2026, with residents to be consulted. There has also been talk of trialling AutoHGVWatch ANPR cameras on weight limits. Meetings come and go. Villages on the way to the port are not a rat-run. They are places people live.
Industry & infrastructureBrigg is a market town where the Ancholme crosses the old road, with markets going back to a 13th-century charter. The river that made the town is also its recurring risk: flood alerts, monitored levels, and the town centre and leisure centre hit in the worst of them. Flood defence and drainage should not be an afterthought because Brigg is smaller than Grimsby.
Industry & infrastructureLloyds closed its Brigg branch in March 2026. A temporary banking hub opened at The Angel; the permanent home is planned at The Buttercross. The council is right that a market town serving a wide rural area still needs cash and a face across a counter. Major banks walking off the high street is not a small-town luxury issue. It is how a town stays usable.
Economy & taxationPlans to turn the former Monument Garage on Bigby Road into a convenience store were refused, then came back. Dozens of residents objected, as did Brigg Town Council. Market towns do not need every spare plot turning into the same copy-and-paste store. Highways, parking and what the town actually wants should come before another chain frontage at the roundabout.
Economy & taxationOutline permission for up to 390 homes south of Horkstow Road was granted on appeal after councillors refused it. Persimmon has put in detailed plans for 388. A separate scheme for about 196 homes off Barrow Road, tied to a relief road, was refused by planning committee in March 2026 after objectors raised Anglian Water capacity, flood risk and “viability” cutting the developer contributions. Residents have kept raising the GP list in Barton. New houses without the surgery, school and road to match are not a gift to the town.
HealthcareBarton sits at this branch’s northern edge, at the south end of the Humber Bridge. In November 2025 residents backed a Neighbourhood Plan by about 90 per cent. North Lincolnshire Council adopted it in December. That is the town saying how it wants to grow. Decisions made for Barton should start from that, not from what is convenient in a distant civic office.
Culture & identityRaised safety barriers on the Humber Bridge were approved in 2025. Detailed design then found the original wire system cannot be anchored at some points, including the Barton tower, so glass panels have been proposed in those stretches. The bridge is how Barton meets the rest of the country. Getting the works right, without leaving the south bank as an afterthought, matters here.
Industry & infrastructureBroughton sits inland of Brigg, on the way towards Scunthorpe — and this branch covers Broughton, not Scunthorpe. Housing west of Scawby Road has been going in; a temporary traffic order has closed stretches of Scawby Road for a new water main, with further closures in 2026. The busy A18 / B1207 Scawby and Broughton crossroads is getting four-way signals, lighting and resurfacing after it was identified as a collision priority. A town that takes the housing and the through-traffic should get a junction that works.
Restore Britain BroughtonBarnetby sits on the noisy concrete A180 and the rail corridor that feeds Immingham. Network Rail opened an £8.8 million maintenance hub here in June 2026, bringing teams from Grimsby, Barnetby and Scunthorpe under one roof. The Government has also earmarked the A180 between Brocklesby and Barnetby Interchange for full reconstruction. At Barnetby Top (M180 Junction 5), a planning inspector in December 2025 allowed a lorry park of up to 200 bays, a fuel station and two drive-thrus after the council had refused it. Residents and Elsham Parish Council had raised flooding, queues on the slip road, and the edge of the Wolds. A village next to a motorway junction is not a blank sheet.
Restore Britain Barnetby le WoldThis is not a rumour. On 11 March 2026 North Lincolnshire Council’s planning committee granted outline permission (PA/2025/643) for Elsham Tech Park, on farmland next to Elsham Wolds Industrial Estate — the old RAF airfield, about a mile from Elsham village and about a mile and a half from Barnetby Interchange (M180 Junction 5). The applicant is Elsham Tech Park Ltd. The scheme is for up to 15 data halls, about 1GW of IT load, backup generators and fuel stores, a district heating centre and greenhouses using waste heat. The site is about 176 hectares. An on-site energy centre is put at 49.9MW — so most of the power still has to come off the grid. Construction is talked about from 2027, with a first phase in 2029. The council talks of hundreds of long-term jobs and billions in investment. National Highways has been on the A15 and Barnetby Top traffic. A draft section 106 includes money for AI training and for parishes including Elsham, Worlaby, Wrawby, Barnetby le Wold, Goxhill and Barrow. Outline permission is not a finished building. Reserved matters still have to come back. Power, traffic and farmland at Elsham, Barnetby and Brigg are local questions. This branch covers Elsham. It does not cover Scunthorpe.
Barnetby le Wold Official energy paper Industry & infrastructureHomes in Barrow Haven, Barton-upon-Humber and New Holland sit on the Humber. North Lincolnshire Council put £1 million toward unlocking a roughly £39 million Environment Agency tidal scheme. About 50 of the highest-risk properties in Barrow Haven are in line for flood doors and non-return valves first, with embankments and outfalls to follow. Further public consultation is talked about for autumn 2026; the full business case is not expected until summer 2027. Flood defence here is not a distant climate lecture. It is whether the next high tide comes through the door.
Industry & infrastructureA mile-long relief road is meant to take traffic, especially HGVs, off Barton town centre by linking the A1077 / Barrow Road to Caistor Road. It is part of £19.7 million Levelling Up transport money. Site work has started, including a new roundabout. The council now says completion is summer 2027, later than the previous March 2027 estimate, while utilities are diverted. HGV restrictions through the town are being lined up to match the new road. A relief road that slips is not a gift until it is open and the lorries actually leave the High Street.
Industry & infrastructureIn August 2026 the council announced months of works on Barton junctions, walking and cycling links and access to the railway station — Whitecross Street, Tofts Road, Barrow Road, High Street, Hungate and the Forkedale roundabout among them. There will be inconvenience. The test is whether school routes, the town centre and Waters’ Edge actually get safer, and whether the south bank is treated as worth doing properly.
Industry & infrastructureSouth Humber people are split between North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire councils. In July 2026 the Government confirmed both stay as separate unitaries. This branch covers Broughton. It does not cover Scunthorpe or north of Scunthorpe. Whichever council collects your bin, services should work for the people paying for them.
Industry & infrastructureThe Home Office publishes how many people are on asylum support by local authority, not by town. There is no official “remigration” count for Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham, Brigg, Broughton, Barton, Goxhill or Barnetby le Wold — remigration is Restore Britain national policy, not a government statistic. We will not invent a town-by-town table the Government does not publish.
Covers Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Immingham and the NEL villages. Snapshot: 30 June 2026.
That is 16.68 people per 10,000 residents — rank 110 of 361 councils. The stock is still far above 141 at the end of 2023. It was 277 at the end of 2025 and 282 at the end of March 2026, then 267 by 30 June. Initial accommodation in the same snapshot: 0.
The Home Office figure is for the whole council, including Scunthorpe — which this branch does not cover. Snapshot: 30 June 2026.
That is 5.08 people per 10,000 residents — rank 185 of 361 councils. The stock has risen from 74 at the end of March. Brigg, Broughton, Barton-upon-Humber, Goxhill, Barnetby le Wold and the North Lincolnshire villages sit inside this total. We cannot honestly say how many of the 87 are in our patch, because the Home Office will not publish a town split.
| Area | Council figure that covers it | Town-level asylum split | Official remigration count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire: 267 on support (253 in dispersal housing) | Not published. The Home Office withholds town, postcode and constituency breakdowns. | None. Remigration is Restore Britain policy, not a current government programme with local totals. |
| Cleethorpes | Same NEL total: 267 | Not published. No official Cleethorpes-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Immingham | Same NEL total: 267 | Not published. No official Immingham-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Brigg | North Lincolnshire: 87 on support (78 in dispersal housing) — whole council, including Scunthorpe | Not published. The 87 is not a Brigg number, and it is not “none in Brigg” either. | None published. |
| Broughton | Same North Lincolnshire total: 87, including Scunthorpe (outside this branch) | Not published. No official Broughton-only asylum figure. This branch covers Broughton; it does not cover Scunthorpe. | None published. |
| Barton-upon-Humber | Same North Lincolnshire total: 87, including Scunthorpe (outside this branch) | Not published. No official Barton-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Goxhill | Same North Lincolnshire total: 87 | Not published. No official Goxhill-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Barnetby le Wold | Same North Lincolnshire total: 87 | Not published. No official Barnetby-only asylum figure. | None published. |
| Villages in between | NEL villages sit in the 267. North Lincolnshire villages (including Goxhill, Elsham and Barrow) sit in the 87. | Not published at village or postcode level. | None published. |
Restore Britain’s national objective is to reverse mass immigration: deport all illegal migrants, and deport a legally resident foreign national who is unable to speak English, lives in social housing, claims benefits, refuses to work, fails to integrate, commits crime, or actively hates our way of life. That is set nationally. This branch does not invent a local remigration quota, a local target, or a local “level” the Home Office does not record. The figures above are the public-record stock of people on asylum support in the two councils that cover South Humber — the closest official numbers that exist for these towns.
Official immigration policySources: Home Office immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026 — asylum support by local authority (Asy_D11). Compiled place profiles: North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire (updated 30 Jun 2026). Local reporting of the council leader’s letter: Grimsby Live, 28 May 2026. Commons Library: supported asylum seekers are published by local authority only. Town-level FOI breakdowns are withheld under FOIA section 38.
Policy is national. Leaflets, meetings and conversations are local. That is the part you can do this week.