Halifax bus station: Partial closure date revealed as work begins on new £17.7m building

Halifax bus station will be partially closed next month to allow work to begin on the new £17.7m building.
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Halifax Bus Station is being redeveloped in order to provide improved facilities and higher levels of comfort. To enable the construction work to start, the bus station will be partially closed from Sunday September 5

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At Calderdale Council's planning comittee councillors permitted a variation to designs for the new bus station at Northgate, Halifax, which would see loss of some wooden beams and a “green wall” following fire safety issues raised and concerns expressed by insurers.

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Coun Paul Bellenger (Lib Dem, Greetland and Stainland) said he could not understand how the green wall, a living screen, would be against fire regulations and councillors were unhappy at losing the element, Coun Stephanie Clarke (Illingworth and Mixenden) suggesting a steel trellis could be used to get round the issue.

But officers said councillors had to deal with the application as it was in front of them and the changes met the need.

During the design review process a number of changes have been made, the most significant proposed change is to the concourse roof structure (from structural timber to steel) and the omission of the green wall.

On the changes to roof design, the applicant, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, said: "The Combined Authority’s building insurers recently advised that the premiums for Halifax Bus Station would increase by 20 times for a glulam timber roof, and strongly advised changing the design to a steel roof.

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"The insurers did not think it would be possible to amend the timber roof in any way to reduce the insurance premiums.

"The Combined Authority’s Head of Assets has advised that an increase in insurance premiums by 20 times is not affordable

On the omission of the Green Wall the WYCA said: "The Combined Authority’s building insurers recently advised that the premiums for Halifax Bus Station would increase significantly if a green wall is included, and strongly advised omitting this from the design.

"The insurers did not think it would be possible to amend the green wall in any way to reduce the insurance premiums."

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Pre-construction works has started to replace existing bus station with new state-of-the-art facility

Alongside improved passenger facilities and better access to the town centre, plans for the new bus station include environmentally friendly features, such as measures to enable the future introduction of electric bus charging points, bike parking and solar panels.

Calderdale Council’s Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Strategy, Councillor Jane Scullion, said: “The West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s work on Halifax bus station will complement other transport improvements around the town to provide a more coordinated travel network with better connections to the West Yorkshire region."

The new Halifax Bus Station, is part of a wider package of schemes to transform the way people travel in and around the town.

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It is being delivered with money from the Leeds City Region Transforming Cities Fund, which is helping to transform gateways to towns and cities across the region by making it easier to walk, cycle and use public transport.

Willmott Dixon will be undertaking the construction work, which is expected to continue until late 2022.

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