Council depot moves to shared site

However, the future of the authority’s Scarborough depot remains in the balance after the scheme was deferred by councillors waiting to find out more information following a meeting yesterday.

Scarborough Borough Council’s cabinet agreed to back plans to move its services in Whitby to the Stainsacre Industrial Estate, which will release land for housing following the sale of its old Stakesby Road depot.

Some of the cash from the sale will be ploughed back into the new facility.

But a planned multi-million pound move for its depot in Scarborough has been put on hold after cabinet members requested further details on the development which has been dubbed as “one of the biggest in decades”.

The authority is proposing to spend £3.69m on moving its Dean Road depot to a former gas board site at the Queen Margaret’s Industrial Estate despite a risk that supermarket giant Tesco might be forced to pull out of paying for the proposed overhaul because of a planning setback.