A long-awaited car park ideally positioned to ease parking problems in the heart of Haverhill town centre will officially open when a classic car becomes the first vehicle to use the 110-space facility.
St Edmundsbury Borough Council Leader John Griffiths will drive a vintage Humber into the Town Hall Car Park at the Cleales site and become the first person to park at the new development. The facility will then officially open to the public after a four month construction period which saw a total of 1535 tonnes of recycled materials used. The new car park will act as an extension to the existing Town Hall car park.
The development is one of the first key stages of the Haverhill masterplan, which has been designed to transform the town centre over the next decade. St Edmundsbury has pledged £10million towards the project and that money will be used to attract extra funding from outside bodies. Construction of the car park cost £460,000.
Cllr John Griffiths, Leader of St Edmundsbury Borough Council, said:
“The completion of the new Town Hall car park is one of the first visible steps in the realisation of the Haverhill masterplan. It is ideally located to give shoppers easy and convenient access to the town centre and has been finished in good time for the Christmas rush.”
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Note to editors: During construction, 1250 tonnes of recycled concrete was used as aggregate on the site, 230 tonnes of crushed glass was used for pipe bedding and 55 tonnes of recycled brown bin waste was used for landscaping.
ISSUED BY LIZ HEARNSHAW, COMMUNICATIONS UNIT, ST EDMUNDSBURY BOROUGH COUNCIL. Tel 01284 757033. liz.hearnshaw@stedsbc.gov.uk
