Activity centre building set to begin

A Living Seas activity centre will be built on the site of a cafe on the headland which burned down after a vandal attack in 2009.

The site, just up the road from the beach at South Landing, will show the public and school groups the diversity and abundance of marine life on the chalk reefs off the headland through boat trips, snorkelling, beach cleaning and other activities.

Yorkshire Wildlife Trust hopes the centre, which will have a café and wet room, will be completed in time for Easter next year. It will be open each weekends but will be closed to the public during school visits.

The start of work has been delayed by negotiations with East Riding Council over the lease.

Martin Batt, from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, who was speaking about the development at a meeting in Bridlington last night, said he was hoping an agreement would be struck shortly: “We haven’t bottomed out the lease and the allocation of costs between us and the East Riding Council, but I’m hoping it will be September (when we start).”