Work is set to start on a £200,000 community centre.

Builders will fence off a section of land next to Steeton Bowling Green before construction work begins on the Steeton Community Hub on Monday.

The hub will provide facilities for groups and replace the outdated bowling pavilion in Skipton Road.

The start date was revealed despite recent concerns over the rising costs of the project. The parish council had attracted £200,000 of funding, then discovered the estimated costs would be higher than anticipated.

The Community Hub steering committee has spent the past few weeks talking with architects and builders to scale down the project.

Parish Council chairman David Mullen said: “We've managed to prune it back to come within our budget.”

He said the team had cut back on plans for a patio and the extent of the interior painting. Savings had been made on the kitchen plans, although there would still be kitchen facilities.