Willmott Dixon delivers £20m Halifax bus station

West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin has officially opened the town’s new transport facility.

The bus station is the latest infrastructure project to be delivered by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, in partnership with Calderdale Council.

All 19 of the new station’s bus stands are now operational, and the redeveloped site includes a new travel centre, ‘changing places’ toilet with extra features to cater for people with a range of disabilities, a new seated waiting area and improved staff facilities.

The station increases capacity for the town’s main bus facility. The site boasts solar panels, cycle parking and a ‘green roof’ covered in bee-friendly plants, intended to help contribute to West Yorkshire’s aim to be carbon neutral by 2038.

As well as local and regional buses, two National Express services will now also use the new bus station – London via Sheffield and Milton Keynes, and London via Leeds and Nottingham.

Mayor Brabin said: “This new state-of-the-art bus station is a place that people in Halifax and beyond can be proud of.

“Attractive and convenient facilities like this will help to get more people out of their cars and onto public transport, creating a greener and better-connected West Yorkshire.

“Over the next four years, I want us to focus on delivering for the people of West Yorkshire, and this transformational facility is just the start.”

Chris Yates, Willmott Dixon’s Yorkshire director, said: “At every stop on the journey to deliver Halifax Bus Station we’ve been determined to not only deliver a sustainably designed bus station this town can be proud of, but to connect local people with jobs, training and education.”

The scheme was delivered through the Combined Authority’s Transforming Cities Fund programme.

Drone imagery showed the station as it neared completion. Credit: Willmott Dixon