This is the thread for all developments, issues, news and events in Newcastle's West End and Outer West area - places like Scotswood, Benwell, Fenham, Elswick, Denton, Throckley, Newburn, and so on.
Some ongoing developments:
Tesco Redevelopment of the General Hospital -
Architect's Blurb:
The proposed new 60,000 sq ft Tesco store is just part of an exciting scheme to redevelop the whole of the Newcastle General Hospital site. The overall proposal is for a large mixed use development consisting of the store, a university research campus focusing specifically on health and ageing, along with associated community healthcare facilities.
A key design issue is the integration of the retail, university and healthcare elements to create a single comprehensive development. This will be achieved in part by the creation of a pedestrian route running north-south through the site linking all the proposed facilities. The south end will be enclosed with a glazed roof, while the north will open out into a wide, landscaped linear park terminating in a 'village square'.
Images:
Latest News:
Proposals for a giant superstore on the Newcastle General Hospital site are back on the agenda – and it could be even bigger than before.
Following the refusal of the original application in February, Tesco, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle University, are working with Newcastle Council to submit a new application for the site. The council have said that nothing has been submitted yet but that pre-application discussions are likely to happen later this month.
Following the independent inspection of the Benwell Scotswood Area Action Plan, the upper limit for the size of a store on the site has been removed so the store could be much larger than previously submitted. (See previous news item: Inspector removes size restriction for store.)
Campaign members are disappointed that no attempts have been made by the development partners to consult with the local community and develop a proposal that builds on the strengths of the area rather than destroying it by building an enormous Tesco superstore. Instead the chief executive of the Hospital Trust has been threatening dereliction if the plans are not to go ahead. Len Fenwick is quoted in the Journal as saying: “Given the constraints on public spending our partnership with Tesco is exciting. The alternative is extensive dereliction of the site.¨ What a choice local residents are offered: superstore or dereliction!
It is also interesting to note that the council is using the lack of shopping outlets in Scotswood as an excuse for retail provision in Fenham. Councillor Bill Shepherd, the city council’s executive member for regeneration, is quoted in the Chronicle as saying: “I’m passionate that Scotswood needs to have good retail provision and we’re continuing to talk to a number of different supermarkets.” However, he didn’t go on to explain how a supermarket on the General Hospital site would help the people of Scotswood, who surely need shops much closer to where they live.
The campaign has been quite quiet for a while but it is now time to build on our previous successes and ensure that this disastrous proposal is stopped. Please get in touch if you would like to be more involved with the campaign.
http://stopfenhamtesco.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/new-application-for-hospital-site-to-be-submitted/
Fire Station Redevelopment:
City Council Summary:
21/01/2009
For more information contact Nigel Whitefield on 0191 211 5097
The future of the former West Road Fire Station site is set to be agreed by the City Council on January 28.
The Council’s Executive is recommended to accept an offer for the 1.31 acre site from New Deal for Communities (Newcastle) Ltd and Groundwork South Tyneside & Newcastle to deliver a scheme for community benefit, following a 17-month marketing exercise.
The bold, imaginative scheme will be known as ‘The West Gate’ and will provide a community enterprise, training and leisure complex in an eco-friendly hi-tech premises with low carbon footprint which will be a focal point for the local community.
The scheme will feature work space for businesses and craft/retail workshops and provide activities for both young and old, including training in literacy, numeracy, job creation and enterprise development.
The premises will also provide a local venue for occasional markets, weddings and conferences.
The planning application will be determined by autumn 2009 with rebuilding work completed in July 2011 and the building is expected to open in August 2011.
The preferred developer was chosen from a shortlist of six applicants who provided detailed proposals and financial offers in September 2008.
The NDC/Groundwork bid was selected because it most closely matched community need and brought NDC/Groundwork’s local knowledge, networks and governance structures. Their proven track record in delivering similar schemes was also considered a major strength.
It also scored highly in community cohesion and social inclusion issues and demonstrated a wide range of services targeted at a broad cross-section of the community.
Images:
winning bid
One of the ones that missed out
Cruddas Park Reclads/Riverside Dene:
Developer Waffle:
A place to belong
The business of remaking the most famous residential landmark on Tyneside begins with a vision.
It’s about being and belonging, with a sense of health, happiness and home.
This is Riverside Dene, the new name for Cruddas Park.
Block by block, acre by acre, a new way of living is taking shape on the north bank of the Tyne.
Revitalised apartments with elegant windows, communal gardens, bright interiors and spectacular views across the Tyne Valley, are just some of the reasons to consider this as home.
Here is a development with properties to let or to buy, offering the best of community life but right on the edge of the city centre.
During the glory days of Tyneside industry, this part of town was famous as a centre of shipbuilding, where mighty warships built at the Armstrong Works, not apartment blocks, touched the sky.
A new future is close at hand but the spirit of history is engrained in our vision and our values, our principles and our pedigree. It begins with a vision because the right kind of vision can soar.
Riverside Dene is rising, can you see it? lol
Images:
from Finton Dawson on Flickr
Scotswood Housing Expo:
Council Summary:
The Scotswood Expo will be the UK’s first Neighbourhood Exposition. It will comprise the first phase of a new neighbourhood that will form the centrepiece of a series of cultural programmes and festivals culminating in a major event in 2011.
Newcastle City Council is currently in the process of selecting a private sector partner to form the Scotswood Urban Regeneration Vehicle (URV). The URV will be a Public Private Partnership made up of the City Council, English Partnerships and Bridging NewcastleGateshead, together with a private sector development partner, which is currently being identified through a procurement process.
Images:
News on Participants:
The RIBA has named FAT as one of the six winners in the groundbreaking Scotswood Expo in Newcastle. The practice will be joined by fellow victors JM Architects, Proctor and Matthews Architects, S333 Architecture and Urbanism Ltd, Sarah Wiggleworth Architects, and Space Craft Architects.
Among the those that missed out were Sergison Bates, and Scandinavian firm White Arkitekter AB. The competition pitted a 12-strong shortlist of practices against each other to deliver 60 new homes in four terraces around a central park. The project will form the first phase of wider £400 million proposals to build nearly 2,000 homes on the site west of the city centre. More than 140 practices submitted entries to the contest, which is run by the RIBA's Competitions Office and has the backing of Newcastle City Council, Bridging NewcastleGateshead and English Partnerships. Jury member Wayne Hemingway said: 'The six winning practices are very fortunate. Being
able to deliver much needed new thinking in housing is an opportunity to bring real benefit to the Scotswood and wider communities. But the hard work starts now and the challenges in bringing designs to fruition will be
difficult but not insurmountable. I am looking forward to seeing the results'
Some ongoing developments:
Tesco Redevelopment of the General Hospital -
Architect's Blurb:
The proposed new 60,000 sq ft Tesco store is just part of an exciting scheme to redevelop the whole of the Newcastle General Hospital site. The overall proposal is for a large mixed use development consisting of the store, a university research campus focusing specifically on health and ageing, along with associated community healthcare facilities.
A key design issue is the integration of the retail, university and healthcare elements to create a single comprehensive development. This will be achieved in part by the creation of a pedestrian route running north-south through the site linking all the proposed facilities. The south end will be enclosed with a glazed roof, while the north will open out into a wide, landscaped linear park terminating in a 'village square'.
Images:
Latest News:
Proposals for a giant superstore on the Newcastle General Hospital site are back on the agenda – and it could be even bigger than before.
Following the refusal of the original application in February, Tesco, Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle University, are working with Newcastle Council to submit a new application for the site. The council have said that nothing has been submitted yet but that pre-application discussions are likely to happen later this month.
Following the independent inspection of the Benwell Scotswood Area Action Plan, the upper limit for the size of a store on the site has been removed so the store could be much larger than previously submitted. (See previous news item: Inspector removes size restriction for store.)
Campaign members are disappointed that no attempts have been made by the development partners to consult with the local community and develop a proposal that builds on the strengths of the area rather than destroying it by building an enormous Tesco superstore. Instead the chief executive of the Hospital Trust has been threatening dereliction if the plans are not to go ahead. Len Fenwick is quoted in the Journal as saying: “Given the constraints on public spending our partnership with Tesco is exciting. The alternative is extensive dereliction of the site.¨ What a choice local residents are offered: superstore or dereliction!
It is also interesting to note that the council is using the lack of shopping outlets in Scotswood as an excuse for retail provision in Fenham. Councillor Bill Shepherd, the city council’s executive member for regeneration, is quoted in the Chronicle as saying: “I’m passionate that Scotswood needs to have good retail provision and we’re continuing to talk to a number of different supermarkets.” However, he didn’t go on to explain how a supermarket on the General Hospital site would help the people of Scotswood, who surely need shops much closer to where they live.
The campaign has been quite quiet for a while but it is now time to build on our previous successes and ensure that this disastrous proposal is stopped. Please get in touch if you would like to be more involved with the campaign.
http://stopfenhamtesco.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/new-application-for-hospital-site-to-be-submitted/
Fire Station Redevelopment:
City Council Summary:
21/01/2009
For more information contact Nigel Whitefield on 0191 211 5097
The future of the former West Road Fire Station site is set to be agreed by the City Council on January 28.
The Council’s Executive is recommended to accept an offer for the 1.31 acre site from New Deal for Communities (Newcastle) Ltd and Groundwork South Tyneside & Newcastle to deliver a scheme for community benefit, following a 17-month marketing exercise.
The bold, imaginative scheme will be known as ‘The West Gate’ and will provide a community enterprise, training and leisure complex in an eco-friendly hi-tech premises with low carbon footprint which will be a focal point for the local community.
The scheme will feature work space for businesses and craft/retail workshops and provide activities for both young and old, including training in literacy, numeracy, job creation and enterprise development.
The premises will also provide a local venue for occasional markets, weddings and conferences.
The planning application will be determined by autumn 2009 with rebuilding work completed in July 2011 and the building is expected to open in August 2011.
The preferred developer was chosen from a shortlist of six applicants who provided detailed proposals and financial offers in September 2008.
The NDC/Groundwork bid was selected because it most closely matched community need and brought NDC/Groundwork’s local knowledge, networks and governance structures. Their proven track record in delivering similar schemes was also considered a major strength.
It also scored highly in community cohesion and social inclusion issues and demonstrated a wide range of services targeted at a broad cross-section of the community.
Images:
winning bid
One of the ones that missed out
Cruddas Park Reclads/Riverside Dene:
Developer Waffle:
A place to belong
The business of remaking the most famous residential landmark on Tyneside begins with a vision.
It’s about being and belonging, with a sense of health, happiness and home.
This is Riverside Dene, the new name for Cruddas Park.
Block by block, acre by acre, a new way of living is taking shape on the north bank of the Tyne.
Revitalised apartments with elegant windows, communal gardens, bright interiors and spectacular views across the Tyne Valley, are just some of the reasons to consider this as home.
Here is a development with properties to let or to buy, offering the best of community life but right on the edge of the city centre.
During the glory days of Tyneside industry, this part of town was famous as a centre of shipbuilding, where mighty warships built at the Armstrong Works, not apartment blocks, touched the sky.
A new future is close at hand but the spirit of history is engrained in our vision and our values, our principles and our pedigree. It begins with a vision because the right kind of vision can soar.
Riverside Dene is rising, can you see it? lol
Images:
from Finton Dawson on Flickr
Scotswood Housing Expo:
Council Summary:
The Scotswood Expo will be the UK’s first Neighbourhood Exposition. It will comprise the first phase of a new neighbourhood that will form the centrepiece of a series of cultural programmes and festivals culminating in a major event in 2011.
Newcastle City Council is currently in the process of selecting a private sector partner to form the Scotswood Urban Regeneration Vehicle (URV). The URV will be a Public Private Partnership made up of the City Council, English Partnerships and Bridging NewcastleGateshead, together with a private sector development partner, which is currently being identified through a procurement process.
Images:
News on Participants:
The RIBA has named FAT as one of the six winners in the groundbreaking Scotswood Expo in Newcastle. The practice will be joined by fellow victors JM Architects, Proctor and Matthews Architects, S333 Architecture and Urbanism Ltd, Sarah Wiggleworth Architects, and Space Craft Architects.
Among the those that missed out were Sergison Bates, and Scandinavian firm White Arkitekter AB. The competition pitted a 12-strong shortlist of practices against each other to deliver 60 new homes in four terraces around a central park. The project will form the first phase of wider £400 million proposals to build nearly 2,000 homes on the site west of the city centre. More than 140 practices submitted entries to the contest, which is run by the RIBA's Competitions Office and has the backing of Newcastle City Council, Bridging NewcastleGateshead and English Partnerships. Jury member Wayne Hemingway said: 'The six winning practices are very fortunate. Being
able to deliver much needed new thinking in housing is an opportunity to bring real benefit to the Scotswood and wider communities. But the hard work starts now and the challenges in bringing designs to fruition will be
difficult but not insurmountable. I am looking forward to seeing the results'