Developers Benchmark Leisure have submitted detailed plans for the next stage of the multi-million pound ‘The Sands’ development in Scarborough to Scarborough Council’s planning department.

These latest plans include a new all-year water park – including giant ‘tornado slide’, family restaurant and holiday homes being built on the site of the former Atlantis water park, Mr Marvels and Kinderland attractions.

As well seeing the return of a top quality attraction for both visitors and locals, it is believed that this new phase of The Sands development will create over 100 new jobs. Figures printed in Scarborough’s Evening News suggest that around 60 jobs will be created at the water park, 35 jobs at the new Scarborough accommodation and 10 jobs at the new Scarborough restaurant.

The new plans indicate that long promised water park is indeed integral to the redevelopment plans of The Sands in order to meet the wider aspirations for the tourism economy in Scarborough.

The new water park will replace the old Atlantis water park, which was demolished several years ago, and will ensure that a major local attraction returns to the North Bay area, helping to regain the holiday resort characteristics which have been sadly lacking for many years.

The new local attraction in Scarborough is expected to be the first part of the development to be brought forward, with construction beginning towards the end of 2013. It is then expected that the rest of the development will follow on over a staggered timescale throughout the next few years.

Not only will visitors and locals soon be able to experience the ‘tornado slide’; the water park will also include a wave pool, children’s pool, outdoor family pool, lazy river and spa.

The site of the former ‘Mr Marvels’ is earmarked for the creation of The Bayview Holiday village, while the old Kinderland is set to be the site of 29 new holiday lodges. Parking for 492 cars will also be created nearby with an overspill car park on Burniston Road.

Nicholas Crane Will Be Documentating Scarborough Tomorrow Night At 9pm On BBC2

A BBC2 programme airing tomorrow night will showcase Scarborough in all it’s glory.

The show is called TOWN and is  presented by Nick Crane who also presents coast another BBC2 hit show.

During the four part series he also visits Ludlow on the Weslh border, Perth the gateway to the Scottish highlands and Totnes in Devon.

The show aim’s to discover each town’s secrets of their survival, the reasons of their enduring appeal and what they can teach people about living the urban dream.

The crew coincided the filming to take place at the same time as The Coastival Festival. They also filmed in a variety of Scarborough locations including James Corrigan’s arcade on the South Bay and The Watermark Cafe on the Marine Drive.

The series also focuses on Scarborough’s way of life and how the town has become “forgotten” over the year’s with viewers been told that by 2030 a staggering 92 per cent of the population will be living in a city.

Former Mayor and Mayoress Hazel Lynskey and Sheila Kettlewell were filmed playing the 2p slot machines, Hazel said.

“The whole team loved the town and enjoyed the atmosphere whilst staying Scarborough hotels. Some of them had never been to Scarborough before and they were really impressed.”

” The programme about Ludlow was very complimentary and this made me feel that Scarborough would hopefully be portrayed in a positive light.”

 

The UK Professional Surf Tour Will Be Coming To Scarborough in October.

The UK professional surf tour is coming to Scarborough in October it has been announced.

The tour will be hosted in Scarborough for the first time with more than 100 of the UK’s best surfers descending on the North Bay for the action packed weekend on October the 1st to the 2nd, which will see the UK’s best staying in Scarborough hotels.

Surfers will be competing for the UK Professional Surfing title and is hoped to transform the North Bay beach as one of the best surf locations in the UK.

As well as great surfing, it also promises to feature skateboarding, BMX and other extreme sports. There will also be other attractions including DJ’s and live music.

The UK Pro Surf Tour was formed in 1998 by UK Surf Promotions Ltd in a bid to raise the profile of the British surf scene in the UK and to make surfing exciting to the public.

Since then the tour has highlighted the quality of surf conditions and locations in the country and provided a stepping stone for up and comers to raise their profile within the surf industry.

The tour was due to come last year as part of the 360 Extreme Sports Festival last year, but sadly the event was cancelled, but this year looks set to be a great success with some of the best UK surfers battling it out for the top prize.

 

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The Sands Apartments Are Shortlisted For A White Rose Tourism Award

Several local business in Scarborough and the surrounding region have been shortlisted for the 2011 White Rose Tourism Awards for Yorkshire.

The award ceremony which is organised by Welcome To Yorkshire will take place at Doncaster Racecourse on the 10th of October.

Scarborough’s finalists will be competing amongst 94  Yorkshire hotels, attractions and venues who will be split into 16 different categories.

Amongst the Scarborough entries is The Sands Seafront Apartments who are nominated for the Self Catering, Cruisers and Serviced Apartments Award.

Scarborough hotel The Crown Spa is up for two nominations for Large Hotel of the Year and Sustainable Tourism Award, and the awards has also shortlisted The Copper Horse Pub in Seamer in the category for Yorkshire Pub Of The Year.

Chief Executive for Welcome To Yorkshire Gary Verity believes Yorkshire’s tourism industry is enjoying a renaissance and this is reflected in the quality of the entrants for the 2011 awards, he said.

” The level of high quality entries has been outstanding and a firm indication that our tourism industry knows the importance of offering our visitors that extra special experience.”

” Yorkshire’s Tourism economy is booming and the finalist list for the White Rose Awards indicates why.”

Chair of Judges for the awards Barbara Woroncow added.

” Yorkshire has such an abundance of tourism gems, those who made the finalist list should be incredibly proud of themselves.”

• More on Yorkshire’s White Rose Tourism Awards Here

Jai McDowall Will Be Performing At The Scarborough Open Air Theatre in August.

Britain’s Got Talent winner Jai McDowall is the latest big name to play at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre.

The 24 year old Scot will perform at the Last Night Of The Proms Event which includes Opera legend Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and tv personality Aled Jones most famous as the vocal’s of ‘walking in the air’ the track which accompanied the film The Snowman.

McDowall won £100,000 and the opportunity to perform at the Royal Variety Performance after he defeated hot favourite 12 year old Ronan Parke to win the fifth series of Britain’s Got Talent.

His victory which was a shock result was viewed by 12.5 million viewers, who watched him perform a brilliant rendition of the Josh Groban hit To Where You Are.

The show will take place on August 28th and is another major draw to the Open Air Theatre who has already seen Sir Elton John play and is expecting young hip-hop group N-Dubz on Saturay the 30th July.

The next show coming to the town is 80′s Rewind 2011 on Sunday July 24th which will see acts such as Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley, ABC, Go West, Dr and the Medics, The Christians, China Crisis and Cutting Crew.

The show follows last year’s event which included the likes of Boy George and Rick Astley and was a huge success.

The Open Air Theatre is certainly bringing in quality acts and this has been extremely beneficial to Scarborough hotels and the tourist trade , who have profited from a number of big names at the venue.