Woodend Creative Workspace
Updated: Thursday, July 31, 2008
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This £4.8million project which is being funded principally by Scarborough Borough Council, Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund will transform the former Wood End Museum (although the 'Sitwell Rooms' are to be preserved as part of the new development) into 35 hi-tech office units, a dedicated incubation unit, artists studios, gallery space and an environmentally controlled space in the basement that will house all the collections owned by the museum service. The centre is due to be completed this Spring.
Progress :
Dec 2006
The Wood End Museum closed its doors to the Public for the final time.
Feb 2007 : The project is still a few weeks behind schedule due to problems with a retaining wall and Japanese Knotweed. This extremely invasive plant requires a special licence to remove it and a special licence to dispose of it at a specified site. The possibility of extending the scheme to the stone tower is being investigated and a report will be going to the Council’s Cabinet. It is hoped to secure £850,000 of funding from Yorkshire Forward for this element of the project.
Mar 2007 : The project is now getting on track with the building of the basement storage area for the curatorial element of the Museum Service, where there will be an environmentally controlled area.
May 2007 : The framework of the building is nearly complete and the floors are also in place. The area in the basement seems huge when it is empty, but will soon fill up when the climatic controls are installed to allow the conservation of the considerable collections owned by the museums service. The front elevation now clad against the elements with work soon to start on the link to the old tower or folly. There will hopefully be an additional eight units in this area. The museums service have now moved into Londesborough Lodge as a result of Yorkshire Coast Homes moving into their new premises, Brook House in Gladstone Road.
July 2007 :
Creative Industries Centre(CiC) has appointed a director Andrew Clay manager of the Round Foundry Media Centre in Leeds - and previously at the Culture Company at the Media Centre in Huddersfield and Public Arts in Wakefield.
November 2007:
The centre's new title and logo announced :
The Woodend Creative Workspace Scarborough.
The building welcomed its first tenants in the Spring of 2008 and was officially opened by Matthew Hill, the deputy director of the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, at the beginning of July 2008.
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