North Yorkshire Council
Scarborough and Whitby Area Committee
6 June 2025
Town Investment Plan (Great Plan for Every Place: Scarborough) – 6 June 2025
Report of the Corporate Director of Community Development
1.0 PURPOSE OF REPORT
1.1 To inform elected members about the Town Investment Plan (Great Plan for Every Place: Scarborough) and the future steps that will be undertaken.
2.0 BACKGROUND
2.1 North Yorkshire Council have begun on the Town Investment Plan programme which responds to the YNYCA ambition of ‘a great plan for every place’. The plans will provide a co-ordinated approach to regeneration and investment at a place-based level. A key aim of the plans is to help the Council, York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and a range of external funding bodied to understand investment priorities in each town.
2.2 The plans will provide an evidence-base for future business cases and investment decisions for each place, bringing together business networks, community organisations, developers, public sector agencies and other stakeholders – to deliver tangible economic benefits.
2.3 The intention to write such plans was first set out in the North Yorkshire Economic Strategy; “to develop investment plans for the county’s towns and their hinterlands (where these are not already in place) to enable them to drive economic growth and productivity”.
2.4 The Combined Authority’s economic framework further developed this action, committing to “a plan for every town”.
2.5 Scarborough’s local policy context today already includes the local plan which sets out a 356-word vision, and the North Yorkshire Economic Strategy which sets out 3 pillars, 9 themes, 22 priorities and 21 measures of success. At a more local level the town investment plan, produced as part of the Town Deal, had a vision of over 250 words. It had 7 objectives and 18 outcomes. On top of this the 2021 Scarborough Blueprint set out a 500-word vision, 9 ‘transformational’ objectives, and 3 further outcomes. Therefore, the ‘Great Plan for Scarborough’ is envisaged to pull together a range of existing investment priorities, rather than create a wholly new set of policies.
2.6 The plan will be fully integrated with the ‘Plan for Neighbourhoods’ and focus on the same themes put forward in that funding’s prospectus.
3.0 Work undertaken to date.
3.2 In identifying these inequalities, and pulling together the existing plans, we will proactively seek to find and address the roots of this inequality and learn from other successful schemes around the UK.
4.0 Next steps
4.1 The next steps are around mapping existing public and private sector actions to address the identified inequalities, with the theory that we will maximise the impact of public sector investment if we can highlight any areas that are solvable but neglected.
4.2 Stakeholder engagement will begin shortly, with members forming a key part of that discussion.
4.3 Whitby’s ‘Great plan for every place’ will begin development in the Autumn.
5.0 End objective
5.1 A clearly set out, limited number of areas to investment propositions that align with earlier policy, and emerging funding streams to directly address the roots of poverty and inequality and deliver economic benefits for Scarborough.
Nic Harne
Corporate Director – Community Development
County Hall
Northallerton
29 May 2025
Report Author – Joe Russell – Principal Regeneration Officer
Note: Members are invited to contact the author in advance of the meeting with any detailed queries or questions