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Council to consider possibilities to boost Wentworth
Street Car Park
After agreeing in May 2009 that redevelopment of Wentworth
Street Car Park for food retail and parking should be considered
through the new Ryedale planning framework, Councillors have
been recommended to invite expressions of interest for the
site from developers.This means that developers submit their ideas
about how they would provide parking and food retailing at
Wentworth Street. Ryedale District Council, which owns the site,
will then assess all the options and decide how to progress. The
options available to the Council range from leaving the site
as car park to moving forward and asking for detailed tenders for
the site. This means that the developers would submit their
proposals to planners for consideration.
‘By asking developers to submit their
expressions of interest the Council and the community will fully
understand what is and what is not possible at Wentworth Street,
and the extent of any benefit’ said Janet Waggott, Chief Executive
of Ryedale District Council.‘ This is a necessary step to receive
worked-up proposals for the site which will then be able to be
considered through the new planning framework’.
In a report to the 25 June Policy and
Resources Committee, Councillors were asked to agree to invite
expressions of interest for ‘the purchase and redevelopment
of either the whole or part of the Wentworth Street Car Park site
for future use, to include food retailing and a substantial parking
facility for use by the public’. The decision on whether to invite
bids will be taken by Full Council on 9 July 2009.
It is recommended to Council that if
bids are invited for the site they should be considered in terms
that include:
- the amount and type of parking to be provided, including during
construction – proposals should support the vitality of the wider
town centre and encourage linked trips to retailers and services in
Malton and Norton;
- the wider regeneration benefits for Malton town centre;
- the integration of the scheme with the town centre, and the
urban design and transport impacts; and
- the extent to which the proposals can help achieve benefits for
the local economy and community.
If expressions of interest for the Wentworth Street site are
received, the timetable for assessment is late in 2009.