More backing for plans but council ‘loses public trust’
More backing has come for the creation of six new tennis courts and an international standard athletics track off Filey Road, South Cliff, Scarborough.
The track would be developed on the former Bramcote School playing fields, and the courts would be created at the old sports centre area, where there would also be high quality homes.
The developer Broadland Properties is working alongside Scarborough College to create the sporting facilities, and the borough council will facilitate a new bowling green next to the tennis courts.
Charles Ellison, headmaster, said: “The college has a rich and long-standing reputation for sporting excellence and the development of these world-class facilities is a further major step in cementing our position as one of the UK’s leading independent schools.”
There is also support from Sirius Minerals, for both the sporting and quality homes, and from Scarborough Business Ambassadors. The homes and sport plans replace the pub, 50-bed hotel, retail unit ideas with parking that the council had earmarked on the site and which were shown on plans at a public meeting.
The changes announced last week include a new option for the bowls club, which the council had tried to move to windswept Sea Cliff.
Scarborough council’s behaviour during the saga has been condemned as “appalling” and has raised issues of trust in the authority, say residents. See letters, page 30