THE BUDGET for building a new multi-storey car park in Stalybridge has been revealed as more than £4.7 million.
And a national firm has won the right to construct it.
Two months after planning permission was granted to convert the existing Waterloo Road facility into the structure, the deal for it will be finalised at a meeting of Tameside Council’s executive cabinet on Wednesday, August 26.
Galliford Try will be responsible for building it, with a budget of £4,720,673 – and it must be in place by the spring of 2028.
It will also be paid from the almost £20 million Stalybridge received from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund.
Documents for the decision detail how ‘a competitive tender process’ saw 10 firms invited to bid to build the car park.
In June, Tameside Council’s Speakers Panel (Planning) committee granted full consent for the car park, which will see the current 59 places expanded to 171.
It will be laid out across four levels, with accessible, motorcycle and electric vehicle spaces also provided.
A vehicle drop off area would be retained close the Waterloo Road entrance to serve visitors to Stalybridge Clinic.
And charges will be the same as Tameside Council’s rates at other facilities.
It is described as sitting, ‘on a brick plinth with external facades treated within powder coated ‘corten effect’ aluminium vertical fins to parking areas and panels to the central core.’
Two pedestrian entrances will link to neighbouring King Street, one at the bottom of the stairs to Stamford Street.
Documents state: “Trees will be retained where possible, with additional planting also added along the King Street frontage.
“These trees will be retained behind a brick wall supports piers and railings above.
“The delivery of the muti-storey car park is a critical component of the Stalybridge West enabling infrastructure package, ensuring the town centre does not lose existing parking provision and the council owned brownfield sites at Stalybridge West are redeveloped, maintaining capacity while supporting future growth and investment.”