Decision details

Approval to submit an Expression of Interest to Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Capital Fund for funding of £200,000, and if the Expression of Interest request is successful, the submission of a full funding application to secure grant funding of £200,000 to Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Capital Fund for the same project.

To secure further grant funding for the Whitby Old Town Hall and Market Place project due to several issues arising during construction that has impacted on the available project budget and is currently predicting an overspend.

• Request match funding from North Yorkshire Council to bridge the funding shortfall. This has been discounted in favour of securing the funding externally but may need to be revisited in the event of being unsuccessful with the application.

• Reduce the scope of the project to remove task items. This was discounted due to most of the project costs relating to just the repairs needed for structural integrity so cannot be removed. If any task items relating to the repurposing of the building were removed, this would impact on the building’s future viability and use, and potentially the required Towns Fund outputs which most of the already secured grant funding has come from.