Eastfield: Community aiming to make park dream a reality

The former Overdale primary school pictured in 2005, which has since been replaced with a more modern building

Residents in a North Yorkshire town are pulling together to try and raise up to £2m to create a new park.

People in Eastfield, just outside Scarborough, want to create the park, café and skate park by 2026.

The former Overdale School site is being considered as a location, with funds potentially coming from the government's Community Ownership Fund.

Jim Bullock, of the Eastfield Residents' Association, said: "We need to apply for the funding this year."

Eastfield Town Council has contributed £25,000 for a feasibility study, with a survey of residents finding more than 90% of those asked in favour of the plan, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

However, the project still needs to attract funding as well as getting official approval, despite the town council, local authority and the area's MP, Sir Robert Goodwill, being broadly in favour.

"I think the park will happen at some time or another, whether we'll get this particular plan through is quite tricky," Mr Bullock added.

If the current proposals went ahead, the nursery building at Overdale could be turned into a café with a skate park built behind it.