PLANS to build a sheltered housing scheme on the site of an all-weather pitch are to go on public display.
East Riding Council wants to develop the scheme on the current all-weather pitch next to Queens Road on Beverley's Swinemoor estate.
The pitch has been derelict and unusable for several years.
The council's plan is to build a new five-a-side games area at the nearby Burden Road playground.
The idea would mean accessing central government funding for the new residential unit.
Commuted Sums – money levied from developers applying for planning permission in the town – would be used to build a multi-use games area.
The plan has political backing from all sides. Conservative ward councillors from East Riding Council are in agreement with the Labour-led Beverley Town Council.
Beverley Mayor Margaret Pinder, often a critic of Conservatives on East Riding Council, said: "We're supporting this idea. We said we would not object on the condition they provide an equivalent games facility in the same geographical area."
The all-weather pitch was initially run by a charity but that has now disbanded so the facility's future became uncertain. The latest proposal follows a series of false starts.
East Riding Council hopes people will make the effort to see the scheme for themselves.
Residents living in the Swinemoor area are invited to attend Samman Road day centre on Thursday any time from 4pm to 7pm to view the plans and computer-generated images of the proposed developments.
The authority says the extra care sheltered housing will be specialist housing for older people, with support and care provided onsite.
The scheme will create 40 two-bedroomed self-contained apartments, along with communal facilities such as a residents' lounge, kitchen and treatment rooms.
The new five-a-side games area will be a high-specification facility, which will be built in line with the requirements of Sport England near to the Mudhills area in Burden Road.
The initial sheltered accommodation plan was actually for the Burden Road site.
Ward councillors, including Kerri Harold, were asked about it and also knew about a Commuted Sum application to improve the existing all-weather pitch.
Councillor Harold says swapping around the locations will put the all-weather pitch with an existing play area.
It will also address an ongoing issue of noise complaints being made by elderly people living near the existing all-weather pitch.
Cllr Harold said: "I never thought the games area was in the right place to begin with – the flats that surround it are lived in mainly by elderly people."
No figures have yet been released by East Riding Council, either for the cost of the home or the sports facility.
John Craig, forward planning and housing strategy manager at East Riding Council, said the authority had put in a bid Homes and Communities Agency funding for the sheltered housing project.
The outcome of the bid is expected to be announced in early summer.
