Stakeholders are seeking clarity over the timeline for a new boat hoist at Scarborough harbour, as officials confirm the project will depend on securing significant funding for structural pier strengthening works.
Concerns have been voiced over the timescales for delivering a new boat hoist at Scarborough harbour.
Stakeholders and local representatives are calling for clear timelines regarding the project, which forms part of the wider West Pier regeneration plans.
While funding for the hoist equipment itself has reportedly been secured through the mayoral combined authority, the physical installation requires substantial and costly structural improvements to the pier.
The revised plans for the West Pier development include specific provisions for a 100 to 150-ton boat hoist. However, questions remain over feasibility studies and applications for government grants to fund the necessary groundwork.
Some members of the public have expressed a desire for the boat hoist to be prioritised ahead of other regeneration works.
Janet Jefferson highlighted the importance of keeping the public informed about the progress, funding strategies, and realistic timeframes of the development:
"Bearing in mind the cost of the boat hoist is covered by the mural combined authority and indeed, revised plans for the West peer development clearly state provision for 100 stroke 150 ton boat hoist. You as a stakeholders, need some indication, please, as time scales. Bearing in mind, we got the grounds. They want to know has feasibility studies taking place and are we going to apply for government grants to move this forward. I was at a meeting the other day where people wanted the boat hoist to come first. I think we got to make people aware that we have to make provision for it and we got to get the money to do this. So, I think we welcome the strategy, but there's just certain things that I think should be in the public domain as to how long certain things are going to take."
At present, officials are focusing on the initial phases of the pier regeneration scheme, which involve repairing ageing infrastructure and ensuring adequate facilities for the existing fishing industry.
The boat hoist has been designated as part of a second phase of the plans, meaning a definitive timescale for its arrival remains unknown due to the significant costs associated with strengthening the pier.
The Corporate Director for Environment at North Yorkshire Council is Karl Battersby.
He outlined the distinction between purchasing the equipment and preparing the historic site to accommodate it safely:
"There are two costs really. One is the cost of boat lift itself but the much bigger cost is the strengthening works to the pier to enable the lift to be placed on it and and what's proposed essentially is that looking at that as part of a second phase of the west pier regeneration project. We don't know what the timescale would be for that further work because the costs of that are significant and at the moment our focus is on getting the first phases of the pier regeneration scheme underway, which essentially is repairing the very tired infrastructure, making sure that there is good provision there for the existing fishing industry but we have amended the scheme to allow future provision of a boat lift as part of that phase two of those plans."
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