DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY - North East England Communal Area

[Newcastle Historian]

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OK, this "communal area" of the NORTH EAST ENGLAND SUB FORUM is not all that widely used, as yet. Also, the majority of threads that there are on here, are 'Area Developments' and/or 'Discussion' type threads, rather than Project Threads for specific construction projects.

As ever, most 'projects' are included in the appropriate one of the four City-led internal forums.

However, we DO now have three project threads in this communal area of ours (and who knows, there may be more to come) so I thought we might as well also have a Development Summary thread (as a 'quick guide' to those projects) in the same way as the City-led forums . . .



Part One - INDEX OF PROJECTS ON THIS DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY:



01 - Whitehaven Harbour Redevelopment | Whitehaven | 4fl | Approved

02 - Tesco Supermarket | Amble | 2fl | Approved

03 - £50M Adventure Park | Widdrington | Various | Pre-planning

04 - NO Project yet.

05 - NO Project yet.

06 - NO Project yet.

07 - NO Project yet.

08 - NO Project yet.

09 - NO Project yet.

10 - NO Project yet.




Part Two - PROJECT SUMMARIES, PHOTOS, & LINKS TO PROJECT THREADS:

Click the LINK below each PROJECT TITLE, to take you directly to each specific PROJECT THREAD, for full details of the latest situation and all of the available news about that Project . . .



01 - Whitehaven Harbour Redevelopment | Whitehaven | 4fl | Approved
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1247923

The Whitehaven News ran a story about the £10m redevelopment of the Whitehaven waterfront to replace Mark House offices and The Park nighclub based in a former sandstone swimming baths. Developers Magnus Homes has held a competition (with 139 entrants from all over the world) to design the scheme. These have been narrowed down to 5 designs which will be displayed between Nov 6-12 with public views invited.

Here is a brief description of the 5 schemes from the Whitehaven News (who did not list the architects responsible for each design)

Scheme 4:
demolition of old swimming baths, cluster of appartments in seperate buildingsof different heights with ground floor office accomodation
Scheme 20:
Retains baths, extends sandstone as plinth with appartments above
Scheme 66:
Retains baths as entrance to offices. Covered walkway on strand street
Scheme 69:
Retains baths, roof level rises towards Pears House at one end. Also has a walkway onto strand street
Scheme 77:
Retains baths and uses similar 'sandstone coloured material'. Offices on strand street with walkway.


Whitehaven Harbour Competition Winner
8 Nov 2010 - e-architect report that Edinburgh-based Richard Murphy Architects has won this design contest against 139 entries around the world

Whitehaven Harbour design by Richard Murphy Architects:







Richard Murphy said: "We are, of course, delighted to be able to play our part in developing this important site and assisting with the rejuvenation of the centre of Whitehaven.

Our design placed great emphasis on celebrating the site, giving all the flats panoramic views of the harbour, making a distinctive skyline and incorporating the surviving fragment of a historic swimming pool into the design."



02 - Tesco Supermarket | Amble | 2fl | Approved
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1311703


28th January 2011 - Amble Tesco store plans go on show



PLANS for a new supermarket at a Northumberland seaside town have gone on show to the public. The partners already have outline permission for the £5m development but submitted the reserved matters application to Northumberland County Council at the beginning of December.

The development proposed is a 30,000sqft store with 200-space car park on land north of Queen Street, and a new access road. Tesco says the supermarket would create 150 full and part-time jobs.

Amble Town Council organised a public exhibition of the plans at Trinity Methodist Church yesterday, to give people the chance to assess them and pass comments which will be forwarded to the county council.

Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/northum...#ixzz1CQJeRRPX


5th March 2011 - Amble Tesco store plans Approved

PLANS for a supermarket at a Northumberland seaside town have been given the go-ahead. The Duke of Northumberland’s estates and Tesco’s planning application for an ecostore at Amble was approved by Northumberland County Council on Thursday night.

The development will see a 30,000sqft store with 200-space car park on land north of Queen Street, and a new access road. Tesco says the supermarket will create 150 full and part-time jobs.

Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...#ixzz1FiO4gjzp



03 - £50M Adventure Park | Widdrington | Various | Pre-planning
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1563778


Widdrington Adventure Holiday Park could bring 700 new jobs
by Kerry Wood, The Journal, November 15th 2012


The site near Widdrington of the proposed Blue Sky Forest adventure holiday park, plus artists impression of the ski slope

PLANS for a £50m adventure holiday park that would bring 700 jobs to an employment blackspot in the North East have been unveiled. The proposals for a holiday complex at a former opencast site near Widdrington, Northumberland, come at a time when the nearby Alcan site – which was the county’s largest private sector employer – is closing down and there are more than 50 unemployed people for every job.

The resort would boast a four-star luxury holiday village, 100 camping pods, water park and spa, the UK’s largest tree house adventure playground, a fitness centre, 50-acre lake and 400 eco-lodge holiday homes. Developers also want to create snow slopes, gorges and canyons, mountain bike trails and off-road vehicle courses alongside outdoor activities including fishing, horse riding and water sports. The proposals would mark the fruition of the ambitious Blue Sky Forest project launched by local people more than a decade ago to regenerate the area.

Plans for the initial phase will be submitted to Northumberland County Council in the next few weeks with the full planning application to follow next year. Launching the scheme yesterday, Chris Davies, chief executive of developers Active Leisure Resorts, said: “This is a unique concept, there is nothing like it in Europe. When it is a success I hope to replicate it across the UK and take it to Europe. Active Leisure Resorts represents a real and viable opportunity to play a major role in the regeneration of rural Northumberland. This scheme will not only totally revitalise the site but also the minds of the community for which it serves."

Read More - http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-e...#ixzz2CHVp6DOO





NB - THIS IS THE CURRENT END OF THE LIST OF 'NORTH EAST ENGLAND FORUM COMMUNAL AREA' PROJECTS.




**Please notify me of all updates and additions to this thread via the 'N E England Communal Area ADMIN Thread' . . . I will pick the details up from there. Please do NOT post on this thread. THANK YOU**



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