Plans approved for new £13.8m police station

Plans for a new police station in Scunthorpe have been approved by North Lincolnshire Council.

The three-storey building on the site of the town's former market took 10 months to be approved after concerns over noise.

Planners have placed a limit on using sirens in the adjacent car park to between 07:00 and 23:00.

The building will house up to 250 Humberside Police staff, although only 80 people will be on site at any one time.

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the facilities will include an interview room, a gym, kitchen, rest rooms and a mix of open plan and individual offices.

It will not have a custody suite. Anybody arrested in the Scunthorpe area will be taken to the cells in neighbouring police stations.

A car park facing Home Street, will have more than 100 spaces with 60 designated for police staff.

It will replace the existing police station on Corporation Street, which will be passed into the ownership of North Lincolnshire Council along with the adjoining Magistrates' Court and Shelford House.

In exchange, Humberside Police would own the new station site.

Roads around the building will be altered with the Chapel Street one way system being changed to allow emergency vehicles to turn left and right.

The scheme was initially costed at £13.8m and will also include an extension on the west side to the almost complete enterprise and innovation hub, known as Project Anchor.

Construction work is expected to take 18 months.

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