Extra £600,000 approved for station ‘gateway’

Scarborough Council has agreed to spend an additional £600,000 on progressing its station “gateway” redevelopment.

Council officers agreed on Monday to release an additional budget of £640,000 to “progress the Scarborough Station Gateway phase one public realm works”.

The decision will increase the approved budget to £1.1m, which will be funded from the already accepted £6.68m Towns Fund Grant allocated towards the project.

The project, aimed at redeveloping Scarborough Railway Station, will focus on structural improvements and bringing disused parts of the historic building back into use as a station hotel and food and drink units.

The authority recently applied for an additional £20m of Levelling Up funding specifically for the redevelopment of Scarborough Station as well as Pavilion

House and the former Comet corner building.

North Yorkshire County Council has also made an £8.4m bid to the Levelling Up fund to help redevelop Scarborough Station as a transport hub.

Approval was given to appoint Tilbury Douglas Construction Ltd for the sum of £362,000 to carry out the design of the works’ spatial co-ordination and technical design “pursuant to a competitive tender process through the YORcivil Framework”.

A budget of £99,000 is also being reserved to “undertake additional surveys and investigations during stage two”, according to published documents.

Additionally, the council approved entry into a “Basic Asset Protection Agreement (BAPA) with Network Rail Infrastructure Limited” to the sum of £98,000 – detailed in a confidential appendix – to enable the council to “design and then subsequently carry out works on land owned by Network Rail”.