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North Somerset Council’s bid for an additional £5.54m in funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the restoration of Birnbeck Pier has been successful, it was announced at full council today (Tuesday 16 September). Councillors, who were made aware of this news immediately ahead of the meeting, voted in favour of awarding the contract to restore the structure of the Grade II* Listed pier in Weston-super-Mare.

North Somerset Council will on Tuesday 16 September consider the future of the restoration of the Birnbeck Pier structure and the major funding gap placing that element of the project at jeopardy.

North Somerset Council has successfully bid for a grant worth £111,496 from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Heritage at Risk Capital Fund, delivered by Historic England.

North Somerset Council’s second phase of physical work on the Birnbeck Pier project starts this week (w/c Monday 14 July). To enable the work, the car park next to the pier in Weston-super-Mare is planned to temporarily close from Tuesday 29 July.

This morning (Friday 27 June), the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) informed North Somerset Council they no longer wish to be involved in the delivery of the project to restore Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare. 

North Somerset Council has today (Thursday 30 January) published an open tender to find a specialist contractor to restore Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare.

Another planning application has been submitted today (Friday 13 December) on North Somerset Council’s behalf outlining proposals for a proposed future phase of its project to restore Birnbeck Pier and Island.

The commissioning of work to restore the structure of Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare is set to be discussed at a North Somerset Council meeting next week.

Work to repair the cliff face behind the landside buildings at Birnbeck Pier, part of North Somerset Council’s restoration project, starts today (Tuesday 29 October).

North Somerset Council’s bid for an additional £10m in funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for the restoration of Birnbeck Pier has been granted, it was announced today (Monday 28 October).

North Somerset Council’s first phase of physical work on the Birnbeck Pier project starts this week (w/c Monday 7 October).

The first phase of work to restore Birnbeck Pier was given the green light today (Wednesday 21 August) by North Somerset Council’s Planning and Regulatory Committee.

A planning application has been submitted on North Somerset Council’s behalf outlining proposals for the first phase of its work on the Birnbeck Pier project.

The next steps in the restoration of Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare are set to be considered at a North Somerset Council meeting on Wednesday 7 February.

Architects and engineers have now been appointed with work underway after North Somerset Council purchased Birnbeck pier and island earlier this year (July 2023).