A DEVELOPMENT manager will be recruited by Barnsley Council to help fill empty sites created as part of the £50m Better Barnsley scheme.

The council's plan to regenerate the town centre will see a refurbished market and metropolitan centre, a town square, shopping boulevard, library and more car parking.

But it will also see the demolition of a number of town centre landmarks, including Central Offices in September and later the market multi-storey car park and semi-open market.

It is the vacant sites that will remain to which the development manager will be attracting new retail and leisure facilities.