REGENERATION MASTERPLAN Work to create a radical new regeneration blueprint for Hartlepool has reached an important stage. The draft Masterplan is being published to give Hartlepool residents and businesses the opportunity to comment on the proposals before the Masterplan is finalised.
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Work is continuing to develop the draft Masterplan using the results of the initial public consultation which was held from 4th August 2014 to17th October 2014 to gain people’s perceptions of the Masterplan area and how it could be improved.
JACKSONS LANDING
Prominent Waterfront site with a large long-term vacant building owned by the Council located on the site adjacent to the Listed Seaton Highlight.
RESULTS OF CONSULTATION
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The Council received 628 questionnaire responses to the consultation. The responses highlighted overwhelming support for the Masterplan with 94% of responses agreeing with some or all of the priorities being considered. These included making Hartlepool a major leisure and visitor destination, improving shopping in the Town, and the regeneration of Jacksons Landing, Church Street and Trincomalee Wharf.
CONNECTIVITY
There is poor pedestrian connectivity within the Masterplan Area particularly between the Town Centre and Church Street / the Waterfront.
There was substantial support for improving the physical environment and appearance of the Masterplan Area and raising Hartlepool’s profile as a major leisure and visitor destination to reinforce attractions such as the Hartlepool Maritime Experience. There was also significant support for improving the choice of shops, leisure activities as well as improving pedestrian and cycle connections.
The attached plan shows a few key issues that were raised in the consultation.
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MIDDLETON GRANGE
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The responses also suggested potential uses for development sites and improving the environment of the area. There was also a desire to address the number of vacant and derelict buildings particularly historic ones, improve sports and leisure facilities and reinforce the importance of industry and businesses.
Park Road
The primary retail and car parking location and dominant physical presence in Hartlepool Town Centre.
KEY SITES AND AREAS This consultation introduces the key projects and seeks your views and opinions on them.
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TRINCOMALEE WHARF
Major potential brownfield development site extending back from the Waterfront at Jackson’s Dock.
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CHURCH STREET
Partly within a Conservation Area with a number of neglected historic buildings, there is low footfall due to limited daytime uses and a physical environment in need of improvement.
MASTERPLAN PROPOSAL
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The Masterplan focuses a number of key projects for sites and areas within three sub-areas; the Town Centre, Innovation and Skills Quarter, and the Waterfront. These will be linked by improved pedestrian and cycle connections.
TRINCOMALEE WHARF
One of the main strengths of the Masterplan is the location of the projects and their connections. These help to create a new urban spine through the Masterplan Area. This stretches from Middleton Grange Shopping Centre through Church Street and Trincomalee Wharf to the Hartlepool Maritime Experience and Jacksons Landing with an improved environment and connectivity.
LYNN STREET DEPOT/ NEW CCAD CAMPUS
Developments such as the expansion of Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) anchor this route creating vibrancy and encouraging people to move between the key sites. The connectivity and environmental improvements aim to create a high quality, distinctive route that is attractive to pedestrians and encourages footfall.
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Masterplan Boundary Focussed Boundary Town Centre Innovation and Skills Quarter Marina
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WATER ACTIVITIES
CYCLE HUB
Opportunity to provide a social enterprise that promotes and facilitates cycling, with bike hire facilities, cafe, bike shop and repair workshop
Opportunities to increase the use of the water at Jacksons Dock through increased water based activities such as kayaking and zorbing.
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HARTLEPOOL WATERFRONT The Waterfront is a key area for the Masterplan with an excellent opportunity to improve and relaunch it. There are two major development opportunities; Jacksons Landing and Trincomalee Wharf. These seek to build on the success of the Hartlepool Maritime Experience and the Marina. It is proposed that Jacksons Landing will provide a landmark development opportunity for a major visitor attraction, potentially the National Museum of the Royal Navy which has expressed an interest in the site. This would be complemented by other attractions, a hotel and leisure uses along with improved public realm around the Seaton Highlight. Advanced negotiations are also taking place for the Hartlepool Maritime Experience to become a regional Museum for the National Museum of the Royal Navy
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TRINCOMLEE WHARF
Opportunity to develop a major mixeduse scheme along with new and improved public space on the Waterfront.
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WATER TAXIS
Operating a water taxi within Jacksons Dock to provide better circulation around the Waterfront.
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JACKSONS LANDING
Opportunity to deliver a major landmark destination leisure or visitor attraction with associated complementary leisure uses including a hotel and a STEM Hub.
Trincomalee Wharf will be a major mixed-use redevelopment. This could include residential, office and leisure uses as well as some shops. There will also be new connections through the site to improve access to the Waterfront. There is potential to improve the public realm around the Waterfront and to make better use of Jacksons Dock for water based activities and events. Connectivity will also be improved with water taxis around the Dock and a Cycle Hub to help promote cycling.
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KEY LANDSCAPE FEATURES
NARROWING CARRIAGEWAY
KEY FRONTAGES LANDMARKS PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS
Will enable footpath widening to improve the image of the street, attract investment and encourage people to occupy buildings which will create vibrancy.
The Church Street area is the focus for the creation of an Innovation and Skills Quarter. The proposals will redefine the area with additional day time uses, an improved environment and a vibrant cluster of creative industry businesses.
VEHICULAR ROUTES KEY VIEWS LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE
The new Campus for CCAD on the Council’s Lynn Street Depot is a key project. This will provide modern accommodation for the College and increase footfall on Church Street. The Depot will allow the College to expand and to provide additional student accommodation as its student numbers increase in future.
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IMPROVING HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Create workspace in vacant buildings for new and small businesses.
Improvements to the historic buildings on Church Street will be encouraged to complement public realm improvements to help attract new occupiers and uses to the area.
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IMPROVEMENTS TO PUBLIC REALM
Using high quality materials to enhance the appearance of the Street.
ENCOURAGE CREATIVE INDUSTRY OCCUPIERS
Promotion of the area as a cluster/hub for creative industries in refurbished properties close to the Colleges.
Church Street
A number of options to improve the appearance, vitality and ‘performance’ of Church Street have been considered, ranging from full pedestrianisation to schemes that maintain traffic but reduce the dominance of the car. The preferred option is to narrow the vehicle carriageway to provide a widened footpath on the north side of the street. Shops, cafés, and bars can then spill out onto the pavement creating an active street throughout the day.
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NEW CLEVELAND COLLEGE OF ElevationART 2—East AND DESIGN CAMPUS New Campus to anchor Church Street and provide state of the art facilities for the College and additional student accommodation.
Elevation 3—West
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Elevation 4—South
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PARK ROAD
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IMPROVE/DECLUTTER PUBLIC REALM
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Complementary relocation of leisure facilities from Mill House to adjacent to Middleton Grange.
IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLETON GRANGE
Improvements to image and quality of the Shopping Centre.
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IMPROVEMENTS TO YORK ROAD Removal of guard rails and street furniture to ‘de-clutter’ the footpaths.
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REDEVELOPMENT OF MILL HOUSE
Residential redevelopment to fund new Town Centre Community and Leisure Centre at Middleton Grange.
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Shop units facing on to Victory Square could also be opened up removing the blank wall and improving its external appearance. This would add activity to the Square whilst respecting its memorial status. A key project is the relocation of leisure facilities from Mill House to the centre of Town adjacent to Middleton Grange (on the car park next to the Market Hall). This will create brand new facilities close to public transport and ample car parking and encourage linked trips to the shops which will help improve the Shopping Centre and attract retailers. It will also provide modern community and leisure facilities which will be more energy efficient and more cost effective to run.
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Middleton Grange Shopping Centre dominates the Town Centre. The new owners are keen to invest in improvements to the Centre and to attract new retailers. There is potential for the redevelopment of part of the Centre to introduce new modern units.
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IMPROVEMENTS TO VICTORY SQUARE FRONTAGES
Proposals would also seek to improve the physical shopping environment of York Road by removing guard rails along the Road and improving the public realm.
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Opening up the frontages of Middleton Grange surrounding Victory Square to improve the image of the Shopping Centre. SAFE DISTANCE?
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PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS VEHICULAR ROUTES KEY VIEWS LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE
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CONNECTIVITY The key to the success of the public realm strategy is the ability to connect all of the sites together and make walking between them easier. Each key site will therefore be linked to each other enabling a flow from one space to the next. Without improved connectivity individual developments and projects will be isolated and will not complement each other. A range of types of improvements are proposed including seven amendments along Stockton Street. These include new crossings, the removal of guard rails, and revised priority junctions. These will help pedestrians cross the road but also maintain a steady flow of traffic and maintain road safety. In addition, public realm and junction improvements are also proposed to Church Street and Church Square, Victory Square/Victoria Road and York Road. These improvements, along with those proposed at the Waterfront to increase the ease with which people can move around the Masterplan Area.
NEXT STEPS CONSULTATION
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PROVISION OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT THE MULTI STOREY CAR PARK ACCESS.
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Your views are important as part of the Masterplan process. We would be grateful if you could complete a questionnaire to provide us with valuable feedback to help inform the Masterplan. You can comment on the proposals by completing a questionnaire and returning it to the Council at:
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE STOCKTON STREET/PARK ROAD TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
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REMOVAL OF CENTRAL BARRIER ALONG LENGTH OF STOCKTON STREET AND REPLACEMENT WITH TREES OR OTHER ‘ATTRACTIVE’ FEATURES.
Regeneration Division Hartlepool Borough Council Civic Centre, Level 3 Victoria Road Hartlepool TS24 8AY
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You can also view the consultation material online at www.hartlepool. gov.uk/MasterplanConsultation where you can also complete the questionnaire online.
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Please provide your feedback by 12 February 2015 to ensure that your views are fully considered. The Masterplan will be revised with the results of the public consultation before being adopted in March 2015..
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PROVISION OF HIGH QUALITY PEDESTRIAN CROSSING ACROSS THE A689 AT VICTORIA ROAD
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PROVISION OF FOOTWAY / CYCLEWAY ALONG STOCKTON STREET OVER THE RAIL LINE.
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DELIVERABLES PROVISION OF NEW PEDESTRIAN CROSSING FACILITY BETWEEN THE HARTLEPOOL COLLEGE AND MIDDLETON GRANGE.
PROVISION OF ROUNDABOUT AT STOCKTON SREET / CLARENCE ROAD AND CHURCH STREET JUNCTION
The Masterplan will then be used to guide development in the Masterplan Area over the short, medium and long-term on a phased basis. It will also be a key document to support securing investment and supporting economic growth. The viability of the Masterplan proposals has been carefully considered as part of the process in order to demonstrate that the Masterplan is deliverable.
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