Green light for Scunthorpe police station plans at former market site

Planning approval has finally been granted for a new police station in the heart of Scunthorpe.

Proposals for a new three-storey police station at Scunthorpe‘s former market site, off the High Street, had been pending approval for 10 months. They have now been approved, with a condition to limit sirens testing in its adjacent car park to between 7am and 11pm.

The station will be home to 250 Humberside Police staff, though will only have a maximum of 80 staff on site at any one time. It will involve a western side extension to the almost complete enterprise and innovation hub – also known as Project Anchor.

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 or holding cells. For any Scunthorpe area arrests, individuals will be taken to custody suites in neighbouring police stations. A car park facing Home Street, will have more than 100 spaces, 60 designated for staff.

The project has previously had a £13.8m price tag. An August North Lincolnshire Council document put its completion date at March 2026. This was based on a 72-week construction period, and the police construction beginning in August 2024.

The longer than expected planning process appears to have been because of lighting and noise assessment requirements. As well as the building itself, there will be a shakeup of local road access too.

Chapel Street’s one-way system will be reversed, to allow emergency vehicles to turn left and right. This was sought to “significantly improve response times” to incidents, particularly on the west side of Scunthorpe.

The new police station will replace the existing Corporation Road station. A Humberside Police and Crime Commissioner decision record earlier this year revealed Corporation Road station, the Magistrates’ Court and Shelford House would go into council ownership. In exchange, the police would own the new police station site.

Original artice: https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/all-about/scunthorpe