Yet another masterplan is being drawn up for The Sands development at Scarborough’s North Bay.

Scarborough Council’s private sector partner Benchmark Leisure has assured residents that the latest design will incorporate the coveted £20m covered water park, due to open this spring, but it is not known whether the eight-lane competition-standard pool replacing the town’s outdated indoor pool is still on the cards.

Managing director David Rhodes told Scarborough Evening News: “We are putting together a revised masterplan with the council which will identify what the next phase is going to be. We are going through the process of considering what to include, and hope to get new plans in over the next few months.

“A water park will still be in the masterplan and we already have architects working on designs and we are meeting with them regularly.

“We cannot say at this stage when the new plans will be completed as our priority at the moment is working on the Open Air Theatre.”

The promenade’s dilapidated Open Air Theatre is due to be redeveloped later this year and is scheduled for completion in summer 2010.

A new beach management centre and beach chalets have already been constructed and Northstead Manor Gardens and the miniature railway have been revamped.