Appendix C South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profiles

South Tyneside Sustainability Appraisal (Scoping Report): Appendix C South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profiles

August 2018

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Inner South Shields

Character area Inner South Shields comprises the Beacon and Bents ward. South Shields town centre is the largest in South Tyneside and provides the principal commercial, size: 318 ha retail, leisure, community and tourism location. This is flanked by the riverside and foreshore areas, with surrounding residential and employment areas to the north and south. It is a key location in Tyne & Wear and benefits from good accessibility, including metro/bus public transport interchange and direct ferry link Population: to North Tyneside. 10,504

Landscape Town Centre - South Shields Centre includes the central business district of the town and principal commercial area. Shops are focused along King Street, with Character Study: retail parks and industrial estates extending south. There is also extensive car parking on the edges of the town centre. townscape/ Riverside - South Shields Riverside a mix of industrial, commercial, cultural, residential and vacant land. Ongoing large-scale redevelopment will substantially landscape alter the character of the area. qualities Residential - The Lawe and Ocean Road is predominantly residential with a commercial strip extending from the town centre to the foreshore with a distinctive concentration of curry houses and B&Bs/Guest Houses. Westoe is also predominantly residential with the Westoe Bridges district shopping centre. Open Space – Key areas of open space are situated along the riverside and coastal areas. South Shields Foreshore provides registered historic parks, recreation grounds, beaches and the northern parts of the Coastal Leas. There is a major new park at Harton Quay being developed with views along the river.

What is the policy context?

The Local Development Framework Core Strategy (2007) and South Shields Town Centre & Waterfront Area Action Plan (AAP) (2008) set out that the spatial strategy for the Inner South Shields area and are supported by the South Shields Regeneration Plan and SPD8: the South Shields Riverside Regeneration Area. Policies seek to:  Strengthen and promote the growth of the town centre  Support South Shields as the principal centre for shopping, entertainment and leisure.  Establish the foreshore as a destination of choice for visitors and tourists  Redevelop the riverside as a high quality location for urban living, leisure and employment

Conservation Area Management Plans (SPD 19 & 20) for the Mariners Cottages and Mill Dam Conservation Areas, set out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets in these areas.

The ‘South Shields 365 town centre vision’ document (2013) outlines ambitious plans to creating an expanded retail and leisure offer in a vibrant town centre. Opportunities include a new retail and high quality family-friendly leisure developments with improved access in the ‘Town Centre’. The ‘Riverside’ has potential for new leisure, cultural and commercial activity, as well as residential at ‘Holborn’. The ‘Foreshore’ has the opportunity to increase its visitors and extend the season.

What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

European Sites Northumbrian Coast SPA & Ramsar Site N/A JNCC The coastline in this character area is designated as part of  The biodiversity value of the Number of SSSI’s and Durham Coast SSSI – 140.99 ha There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside Natural England (2013) the Northumbrian Coast SPA and Ramsar site. It is also Inner South Shields character Area (ha) covering 158.8 ha identified as a SSSI’s which is recorded to be in ‘favourable’ area is an important asset to Condition of SSSI’s Durham Coast SSSI : Favourable 96% favourable condition in South condition. There is also 2 Local Wildlife Sites in this the borough. The Local Plan Tyneside character area. should seek to protect and Number and Area (ha) 1. South Marine Park Lake (0.9 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in South Tyneside Council enhance these assets. of Local Wildlife Sites 2. South Shields Dunes (12.1 ha) South Tyneside Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Life Expectancy Beacon & Bents M: 74.5 F: 81 South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 JNSA 2012 Life expectancy for both males and females and the  Seek to improve life Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 10.2% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England percentage of adults eating healthily is lower than the expectancy Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 22.4% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) borough average. However childhood obesity and reported  Seek to promote and Obese Adults Beacon & Bents: 26.1% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealth levels of binge drinking are lower than the borough encourage opportunities for Binge drinking adults Beacon & Bents: 27.4% South Tyneside: 28.7% .org.uk average. healthy lifestyle choices Healthy eating adults Beacon & Bents: 19.4 % South Tyneside: 19.8% through the Local Plan. 1

Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Area (ha) Inner South Shields: 318 ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010)  Protect the Inner South Flood Risk Zones Sea front and the riverside: identifies that there are a range of flooding issues in Inner Shields Character area from Functional and tidal Flood Risk Zone 3 and Flood Risk Zone 2. South Shields, predominantly along the sea front and the the risk of surface water Critical Drainage Areas Critical Drainage Areas 3a: This area has numerous historical flooding events and is at riverside, comprising functional and tidal Flood Risk Zone 3 flooding and any potential risk from surface water flooding. and Flood Risk Zone 2. There are various flood defences to risk of coastal flooding Historic Flood Risk South Shields Town Centre: 152 Flood Risk incidents in South address these issues with a current project being exacerbated by climate Ocean Road – 7 reported events. Tyneside. implemented at Littlehaven Beach, together with the change Westoe Road – 5 reported events realignment of the sea wall defences, promenade and car  Continue to protect parks along Harbour Drive. There are also areas of varying Geodiversity Sites There is 1 geodiversity site in the Inner There are 6 geodiversity sites in South geodiversity sites in this vulnerability to surface water flooding. South Shields Character area: Tyneside – Total Hectares: 36.8 ha character area.  Consider any landscape South Shields Dunes (12.1 ha) The South Shields Dunes, measuring 12.1ha, provide the designations in this area. Green Belt There is no Green Belt in the Inner South South Tyneside Green Belt area: 2,396 only geodiversity site in the character area. The coastal Shields character area. (ha) area is also identified as the Limestone Coast designation Landscape Local Development Framework: None identified. Limestone Landscapes by the Limestone Landscape partnership. Designations Landscape Character Study: None identified Partnership Limestone Landscape Designations: Limestone Coast South Tyneside Council Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Air Quality There are no AQMA’s in the Inner South There are 2 AQMA’s in South Tyneside South Tyneside Council The expected impacts of climate change are increased  Consider potential climate Management Areas Shields character area. flood risk due to increased precipitation and sea level rise. change risks and deliver The coastal and riverside areas of this character area may relevant adaptations and Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy be more susceptible to these risks. Furthermore, increase mitigation measures. climate change risks? wind speeds and storms in coastal areas may also pose a risk to buildings and infrastructure. Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the Inner South Shields character area include: South This area has good transport links with a public transport  Consider the key assets and Assets  South Tyneside’s principal commercial, retail, leisure, and tourism location. Tyneside Council interchange including metro and bus provision, the Shields functions of the character Transport The Inner South Shields character area is served by: Ferry, existing and proposed cycle routes and the A183 area. road infrastructure. Specific road infrastructure Infrastructure  A183  Cycle routes  South Shields bus  Retain and where possible improvement requirements have been identified at the  1 metro station  Shields Ferry station improve all forms of A194 Western Approach/A194 Crossgate/B1303 Station transport provision and Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure Road junction and the A1018 Westoe Road and its junction highway issues in this Allotment Provision There are no allotment sites n the Inner There are 23 Council owned allotment sites at Westoe Bridges. character area. South Shields Character Area. in South Tyneside providing 1347 plots.  If possible seek to provide Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum There is a range of beaches open spaces in the character allotment provision within Play Provision South Marine Park Excellent Good Good 87% ‘good area. The foreshore is supplied with good quality open standard’ character area or ensure (2009) North Marine Park Excellent Fair Good 73% spaces and parks; however, there is a shortage in the target demands are accommodated riverside area and the town centre. There is poor local Foreshore Good Fair Fair 67% in the borough. access to natural and semi-natural greenspace in the wider Blenheim Walk Fair Fair Good 60%  Maintain and improve the South Shields town centre, Riverside, Tyne Dock and Foreshore Fair Fair Fair 53% quality of children’s play Rekendyke areas. However the creation of a prestigious provision urban park at Harton Quays and open space at the Trinity  Provide adequate green South development will increase provision. There is also a infrastructure provision to lack of allotment provision in this character area. meet requirements. 2

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

World Heritage Sites 1x World Heritage Site: Frontiers of the 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council The Inner South Shields character area has a significant  Consider the impact any and Scheduled Ancient Roman Empire – Arbeia Roman Fort 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments amount of important historical assets. The character area proposed development in Monuments includes the Arbeia Roman Fort World Heritage Site and this area would have on the 1 x Scheduled Ancient Monument: Arbeia Scheduled Ancient Monument. It also includes the Mill historic assets and settings Roman Fort and Vicus Dam and Mariners Cottages Conservation Areas, as well as and where possible seek to Conservation Areas There are 2 conservation areas in the Inner There are 11 conservation areas in the only Registered Park in the borough. The Old Town preserve and enhance South Shields Character Area: South Tyneside. Hall, Market Place is the only Grade 1 Listed Building in this existing assets.  Mill Dam  Mariners Cottages character area. The foreshore also has a approximately  Retain and if possible Registered Parks and North Marine Park, South Marine Park and Bents Park in South Shields form one listing 25% of the borough’s Listed Buildings. improve cultural provision in Open Spaces on the English Heritage Registered of Parks and Gardens. This is a Grade II listing this character area. Listed Buildings There are 60 Listed Buildings. There are 244 Listed Buildings in South Tyneside. Listed Buildings at Risk There are no listed buildings at risk. There are 10 listed buildings at risk in South Tyneside. Locally Listed Heritage There are 50 Locally Listed Heritage Assets. There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage. Assets Museums There are 2 museums in the Inner South There are 3 museums and Shields character area: 8 libraries in South Tyneside.  South Shields Museum and Art Gallery  Arbeia Roman Fort & Museum Libraries There is 1 library in the Inner South Shields character area: The Word Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Levels of Beacon & Bents: 8.1 % South Tyneside: 6.6% Office of National This character area has one of the highest unemployment  Consider de-allocating unemployment (2011) Statistics levels in the borough (8.1%). employment sites in areas of

Employment land in 6.2ha - Predominantly Industrial Area South Tyneside Council weak demand, but noting the Total job potential = circa 1,530 jobs The Employment Land Review 2011 identifies that South character area 2.5ha - vacant employment land recent significant increase in Shields Town Centre is the dominant office location with 5,160sqm – vacant office floorspace office employment along the 33% of the Borough’s units. There is a maritime-related 1,550sqm – vacant industrial/warehouse riverside. employment sector along Wapping Street, a recent trend floorspace  There is potential for of large-scale office take-up along the riverside, and there Identified Retail Areas South Shields Town Centre is the main South Tyneside: Town Centres: 3 increases in leisure, retail and are existing industrial estates. The review indicates that retail provision in this character area. District Centres: 6 tourism employment there has been historical weak demand in the area, and Retail Provision (2012) Number of Total Net Retail Total Vacant associated with the town recommends de-allocating employment land in such areas. Retail Units Floorspace (m²) Units % centre, riverside and However in contrast to this, recent developments along South Shields Town Centre 251 50,554.1 39 15.5 foreshore regeneration. the riverside have seen a significant increase in jobs Town Centres 403 75,575.4 59 14.6  Increase levels of Borough Total 1430 155,055.7 181 12.7 provision. employment in the Inner Number of schools in Inner South Shields South Tyneside Employment Land Monitoring (August 2013) identifies South Shields character area. character area Secondary 0 9 vacant employment units/sites available in this character  Reduce the retail vacancy Primary 3 45 area, with the potential to provide for circa 1,530 jobs. levels in South shields town Other 0 8 Most of the existing units are likely to be occupied in the centre GCSE Achievement (5 Beacon and Bents 58% South Tyneside:54.2% Department for short-term; however the sites may only come forward in  Ensure the education and GCSE’s A*-C) Education (2014) the longer-term unless development constraints are training needs of the tackled. character area are provided South Shields town centre is the primary shopping centre for. 3

for the borough. It provides 18% of the borough’s retail units and 33% of the borough retail floorspace. There were 39 units (16%) vacant which is above the borough average. People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Population (2015) Character Area: 9042 South Tyneside: 148,671 Public Health England The Inner South Shields area has a higher percentage  Ensure community facilities (2016) population of Asian/ Asian British residents than the South meet the needs of the Ethnicity (2011) Beacon & Bents South Tyneside % Office of National Tyneside average, particularly Bangladeshi Asians. population. White Statistics  Seek to reduce all forms of Deprivation is an issue, with income deprivation, levels of British 80.2 95.1 deprivation in this character child poverty and older people deprivation higher than the Irish 0.3 0.2 area. borough average and considerably higher than the national Gypsy or Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0  Ensure that house prices average. Overall deprivation is higher in the western and Other 1.3 0.7 remain affordable in this area Mixed central parts of this character area. whilst providing for adequate White & Black Caribbean 0.3 0.2 The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA 2013) housing needs. White & Black African 0.4 0.2 identifies that this area has the highest level of private White & Asian 0.6 0.3 renting in the borough, and there is an imbalance between Other Mixed 0.3 0.2 supply and demand with a need for more market housing Asian/ Asian British of all types. House prices are also lower than the borough Indian 1.0 0.4 average and there is no significant shortfall for affordable Pakistani 1.3 0.3 housing. Bangladeshi 9.8 1.0 Chinese 0.3 0.2 Other 0.9 0.3 Black / Black British African 0.7 0.2 Caribbean 0.1 0.0 Other 0.1 0.0 Other Arab 1.2 0.4 Other 1.0 0.3 Age of Population Beacon & Bents(2011): 39 South Tyneside (2011): 42 Deprivation Beacon & Bents (2015): South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 26.8 % 22.4 % 14.6% (2016) Child Poverty 33.8% 28.2% 19.9% Older People 27.8 % 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices South Shields Inner: £125,710 (Nov 2017) South Tyneside: £140,937 (Nov 2017) South Tyneside Council What are the key sustainability issues?  Improve life expectancy, including boosting adults health eating.  Reduce income, child poverty and older person deprivation, particularly in the centre and along the riverside.  Promote more market housing focused on balancing supply and demand.  Protect and enhance biodiversity/geodiversity/historic assets where appropriate.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding.  Promote more open space to allow healthier lifestyle choices particularly along the riverside.  Improving the design and environment of South Shields Town Centre and surrounding area.  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Outer South Shields

Character area Outer South Shields comprises the Simonside & Rekendyke, West Park, Westoe, Horsley Hill, Harton, Cleadon Park, Whiteleas and Biddick & All Saints wards. This size: 1,541 ha character area includes an industrial riverside and industrial estates in the west and the parts of the developed / undeveloped coast to the east. There are also

Population: residential areas with a range of services including Temple Park and Leisure Centre, and Harton Nook, Frederick Street, Dean Road and Boldon Lane district 67,320 shopping centres.

Landscape Residential - High Shields, Westoe, West Harton, Biddick Hall and Whiteleas, Harton and Horsley Hill and Marsden are residential areas interspersed with Character community buildings such as schools and churches. Study: District Shopping Areas – this character area comprises Harton Nook, Dean Road and Frederick Street district shopping areas. townscape/ Open Space - South Shields Riverside, High Shields and Westoe have limited open space. Westoe Village Cemetery, Temple Park, Robert Readhead Park, West landscape Park, Harton Cemetery, school playing fields, disused mineral lines, and the urban fringe to the south all provide open space provision to the outer character qualities areas. Riverside - South Shields Riverside a mix of industrial, commercial, cultural, residential and vacant land. Ongoing large-scale redevelopment will substantially alter the character of the area. Coast - South Shields Foreshore and the Leas comprise predominantly public open space, with the former containing recreational grounds and beaches and the latter more cliff-top open areas. Both areas provide open long views along the coast and form a strategic recreational asset.

What is the policy context?

The Core Strategy (2007), Site-Specific Allocations document (2012) and Development Management Policies document (2011) set out that the spatial strategy for this character area. Policies seek to:  Promote sustainable development  Housing-led mixed-use schemes at Trinity South and Chuter Ede,  Maintaining accessible local services, community facilities and district shopping centres  Support for the future development of the Port of Tyne and other employment sites are also encouraged.  Public transport and highways improvements  Protect and enhance Green infrastructure Westoe Conservation Area Management Plan (SPD 10) for set out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets for the only conservation area in this character area. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

European Sites Northumbrian Coast SPA & Ramsar Site N/A JNCC The coastline in this character area is designated as part of  The biodiversity value of the Number of SSSI’s and Durham Coast SSSI - 140.99 ha There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England (2013) the Durham Coast SCA and the Northumbrian Coast SPA Outer South Shields character Area (ha) Harton Downhill SSSI - 1.03ha Total area: 158.8 ha and Ramsar site. The Durham Coast is also identified as a area is an important asset to Condition of SSSI’s Durham Coast SSSI Favourable 96% favourable condition in South SSSI, along with Harton Downhill LNR. Both sites are the borough. The Local Plan Harton Downhill SSSI Favourable Tyneside recorded to be in ‘favourable’ condition. There are four should seek to protect and Local Nature Reserves Harton Downhill LNR There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council Local Wildlife Sites in this character area. enhance these assets. South Tyneside Number and Area (ha) 1. Harton Downhill (3.4 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Temple Park East (6.6ha) South Tyneside 3. Temple Park West (34.8 ha) 4. The Leas (85.3 ha) Total area of LWS in Character Area: 130.1 ha Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

M F South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 Life Expectancy JNSA The average life expectancy for females within this  Improve female life Biddick & All Saints 75.8 78.1 5

Cleadon Park 76.9 82.8 character area is broadly in line with the borough average; expectancy in wards below Harton 77.8 81.6 however there is a 4.5 year difference between Horsley Hill the borough average Horsley Hill 78.7 85 (highest life expectancy) and Simonside & Rekendyke  Seek to promote and Simonside & Rekendyke 74.9 79.7 (lowest). Average male life expectancy is slightly above the encourage opportunities for West Park 79.5 84 borough average. healthy lifestyle choices through the Local Plan. Westoe 78.3 80.8 Childhood obesity is slighter above the borough average, Whiteleas 74.4 80.9 but levels of obesity binge drinking and healthy eating in Character Area Average 77 81.6 adults is in line with the borough average. Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 11.2% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 22.4% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) Obese Adults Outer South Shields: 27.4% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealth Binge drinking adults Outer South Shields: 28.5% South Tyneside: 28.7% .org.uk Healthy eating adults Outer South Shields: 19.9% South Tyneside: 19.8% Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Area (ha) Outer South Shields: 1,541 ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010)  Ensure that flood risk in this Flood Risk Zones Sea front and the riverside: Functional and tidal Flood Risk Zone 3 and Flood Risk Zone 2. identifies flooding issues in Outer South Shields area. area is not exacerbated by West Park Ward : vulnerability to surface water flooding Flood risks zones form narrow strips located along South future development. Critical Drainage Critical Drainage Area 3b: Area is shown at risk from surface water flooding and has Shields Riverside, comprising of functional floodplain and  Continue to protect Areas recorded historical events in the vicinity. the coast, identified as Flood Risk Zone 3. There have been geodiversity sites in this Historic Flood Risk South Eldon Street – 3 reported events. 152 Flood Risk incidents in South historical flood risk reports at South Eldon Street and the character area. Newcastle Road / Jarrow Road Tyneside. Newcastle Road/Jarrow Road roundabout. There are areas  Seek to protect the functions Roundabout – 4 reported events. of vulnerability to surface water flooding, most notably the of the Green Belt. Geodiversity Sites There is 1 geodiversity site : There are 6 geodiversity sites in South area located close to the West Park ward. This area forms  Consider any existing and Cleadon Park Quarry (6.1ha) Tyneside – Total Hectares: 36.8 ha Critical Drainage Area 3b. proposed landscape

Green Belt Character area within the Green Belt: 32 ha South Tyneside Green Belt: 2,396 (ha) There is 1 geodiversity site at the former Cleadon Park designations in this area Landscape Local Development Framework: Cleadon Hills Limestone Landscapes Quarry (6.1ha) and a Limestone Landscape Designation. A Designations Landscape Character Study: Cleadon Hills, Coast Partnership small area of the Outer South Shields character area falls Limestone Landscape Designations: Limestone Coast South Tyneside within the existing Cleadon Hills Area of Landscape Value Council identified in the LDF. The Landscape Character Study proposes an area of the coastline as a potential area of landscape value. Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Air Quality Boldon Lane – There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside Boldon Lane has been designated an Air Quality  Be aware of air quality issues Management Areas Pollutant Declared: Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 Areas in South Tyneside. Council, DEFRA Management Area with Nitrogen Dioxide a pollutant within the borough. Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy declared. The expected impacts of climate change are climate change risks? increased flood risk due to increased precipitation and sea level rise. The coastal and riverside areas of this character area may be more susceptible to these risks. Furthermore, increase wind speeds and storms in coastal areas may also pose a risk to buildings and infrastructure

Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Key Infrastructure assets within the Outer South Shields character area include:

Key Infrastructure  District shopping areas  Temple Park South Tyneside Council Key infrastructure assets in this character area include the  Be aware of the key assets Assets  South Tyneside College  Key Employment sites: One Trinity district shopping centres, South Tyneside College, Temple and functions of the character  South Tyneside Hospital Green, Port of Tyne Park and South Tyneside Hospital. area. Transport The Outer South Shields character area is served by:  Seek to retain and where The character area has good transport links including 4 Infrastructure possible improve all forms of  A183, A1300, A1018, A194  Bus network metro stations and parts of the strategic route network. transport provision in this  4 metro station  Cycle routes Specific road infrastructure improvements have been character area. Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure identified with particular requirements for the A194  Seek to provide adequate Allotment Provision Ha Plots There are 23 Council owned Western Approach and B1298 Boldon Lane. Brockley Avenue 2.76 52 allotment sites in South Tyneside. green infrastructure provision Lawrence Avenue 0.17 13 This provides 1347 plots. The Coastal Leas and Temple Park are ‘district’ sites to meet the requirements of this character area. Harton Lane 0.25 12 providing access to natural and semi-natural greenspace.  Seek to retain and where Ashley Road 0.74 39 There are proposed/existing footpaths/cycleways through this area which make a positive contribution to possible enhance allotment Mortimer Road 4.18 135 recreational access. sites in this area. Bamburgh Avenue 5.85 184  Maintain and improve the Hawthorn Avenue 0.28 6 This character area has a high number of play sites rated quality of children’s play Character Area Total 14.2 441 below the minimum ‘good standard’. provision.

Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum This character area provides the second most number of Play Provision Temple Park Fair Fair Fair 53% ‘good allotments plots within the borough, 32% of all council (2009) Cleadon Park Fair Fair Fair 53% standard’ owned plots. Temple Park Fair Good Fair 50% target Cleadon Park Fair Fair Fair 47% All Saints CA Good Fair Fair 65% Galsworthy Rd Fair Fair Good 60% West Park SS Good Fair Good 70% Dacre Street South Fair Fair Fair 57% West Park SS Fair Fair Good 55% Devonshire Street Fair Fair Fair 52% Mowbray Road Poor Fair Fair 50% Dacre Street North Fair Fair Fair 48% Cornwallis Sq. Fair Fair Fair 47% St Marks Way Poor Poor Good 40% Derby Terrace Poor Poor Fair 33% Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

World Heritage Sites There are no World Heritage sites or 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council The character area includes the Westoe Conservation  Consider the impact & Scheduled Ancient Scheduled Ancient Monuments. 1 x candidate World Heritage Site Area, as well as 29 Listed Buildings and 25 Locally Listed any proposed development in Monument 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments Buildings. There are 2 libraries at Boldon Lane and Cleadon this area would have on the Conservation Areas The Westoe Conservation Areas is in the Outer There are 11 conservation areas in Park. historic assets and settings South Shields Character Area South Tyneside. and where possible seek to Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South 12% of the assets identified on the Local List are within the preserve and enhance Open Spaces Tyneside Outer South Shields Character area. existing assets. Listed Buildings There are 34 Listed Buildings. There are 244 Listed Buildings in  Retain and if possible improve South Tyneside. cultural provision in this character area. Listed Buildings at There are no listed buildings at risk. There are 10 listed buildings at risk in Risk South Tyneside.

Locally Listed Heritage There are 25 Locally Listed Heritage Assets. There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage. Assets Museums There are no museums. There are 3 museums and 8 libraries Libraries There are 2 libraries in the Outer South Shields in South Tyneside. character area:  Boldon Lane  Cleadon Park Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Levels of Biddick & All Saints 9.2% South Tyneside: 6.6% Office of National Retail provision is focused on 5 district shopping centres  Consider allocating additional unemployment (2011) Cleadon Park 7.2% Statistics which between them provide 28% of the borough’s retail employment sites in strong Harton 6.4% units. Vacancy levels is this character area are higher than market locations. Horsley Hill 6.3% the borough average (12.7%); however, vacancy rates  Any requirement for the Port range from 10% at Boldon Lane to 29.2% at Frederick Simonside & Rekendyke 9.6% of Tyne to expand onto the Street. West Park 5.8% borough’s general

Westoe 4.9% employment land supply The main employment areas in this character area are Whiteleas 6.5% should be compensated for. located along the riverside corridor including parts of the  Increase levels of Character Area Average 6.9% South Shields riverside and Port of Tyne and Middlefields Employment Land in 70ha - Predominantly Industrial Area South Tyneside Council employment in the Outer Total job potential = circa 440 jobs Industrial Estate. South Shields character area, character area 5.6ha - vacant employment land 4,640sqm – vacant industrial/warehouse The Employment Land Review 2011 identifies strong levels with particular focus on those floorspace of take-up within the Port of Tyne estate, and moderate areas above the borough Identified Retail Areas There are 5 district shopping centres in the South Tyneside: take-up within the Middlefields employment area. The average for unemployment Outer South Shields character area: Town Centres: 3 review recommends the de-allocation of sites where levels.  Ensure that the education  Boldon Lane  Harton Nook District Centres: 6 market demand is weak, and additional employment land needs of the character area  Dean Road  Westoe Road allocations should be directed to those areas of strong are adequately provided for.  Frederick Street demand. It also has identified the Port of Tyne as a strong growth sector and recommends that it should be  Reduce retail vacancy rates in Retail Provision (2012) Number of Total Net Retail Total Vacant supported, but any expansion onto the borough’s general district shopping centres Retail Units Floorspace (m²) Units % employment land supply should be compensated for. Boldon Lane 60 4,334.6 6 10 Dean Road 67 3,160.1 10 14.9 Employment Land Monitoring (August 2013) identifies Frederick Street 96 8,082.4 28 29.2 that, there is a range of employment premises/sites with Harton Nook 89 7,549.7 11 12.4 potential to provide for circa 440 jobs. The average level of Westoe Road 64 5,029.9 8 12.5 unemployment in this character area is slightly above the Character Area 376 28,156.7 63 16.7 borough average. However, within the character area, Borough Total 1430 155,055.7 181 12.7 there is a range of unemployment levels; Westoe has the Number of schools in Outer South Shields South Tyneside lowest levels of unemployment (4.9%) and Biddick and All character area Secondary 4 9 Saints and Simonside and Rekendyke having high levels of Primary 18 45 unemployment (>9%). Other 2 8 GCSE Achievement (5 Biddick Hall and All 46.1% South Tyneside: 54.2% Department for GCSE’s A*-C) (2014) Saints Education Cleadon Park 50.3% Harton 60.4% Horsley Hill 61.4% Simonside & Rekendyke 49.6% West Park 61.1% Westoe 66.1% 8

Whiteleas 46.5% Character Area Average 55.2% People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Population (2015): Character Area: 66,265 South Tyneside : 148,671 Public Health England Deprivation is an issue, with levels of child poverty and old  Ensure facilities meet the Ethnicity (2011) BH CP H HH S&R WP W Wh ST Office of National person’s deprivation higher than the borough average, and needs of the population. White % Statistics considerably higher than the national average. Income  Seek to reduce all forms of British 95.1 96.6 97.4 96.7 89.8 93.9 93.6 97.7 95.1 deprivation is also slightly higher than the borough average deprivation in this character Irish 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 and considerably higher than the national average. Overall area. Gypsy/Irish deprivation is higher in the Simonside and Rekendyke, 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  Ensure that house prices Traveller Biddick and All Saints, Cleadon Park and Horsley Hill wards, remain affordable in this area

Other 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.1 0.7 0.4 0.7 and lower in the Westoe and Harton wards. whilst providing for adequate Mixed % housing needs. White & Black 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA 2013) Caribbean identifies a range of house prices, from South Shields East BH= Biddick Hall White & Black 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 (2nd highest average) to South Shields West (lowest CP= Cleadon Park African average house price). There is an imbalance between H= Harton White & Asian 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.3 0.2 0.3 supply and demand with a shortfall of market detached, HH = Horsley Hill Other 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.2 S&R = Simonside & bungalow and flat/maisonette housing. There is a Asian/ Asian British % Rekendyke significant need for affordable 1-bedroom housing in the WP= West Park Indian 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.6 0.5 0.7 0.2 0.4 western part of the Outer South Shields character area, W = Westoe Pakistani 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.4 1.0 0.0 0.3 and some needs for 1 and 2-bedroom affordable homes in Wh = Whiteleas Bangladeshi 0.4 0.2 0.1 0.4 2.2 0.4 0.9 0.3 1.0 the eastern parts. ST = South Tyneside Chinese 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.2 Other 0.2 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.2 0.3 Black / Black British % African 0.5 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.6 0.3 0.3 0.0 0.2 Caribbean 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 Other 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0

Other % Arab 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.1 1.9 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.4 Other 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.3 Age of Population Biddick & All Saints 37 Simonside & Rekendyke 40 Character Area Office of National (2011) Cleadon Park 44 West Park 41 Average: 41.8 Statistics Harton 45 Westoe 42 South Tyneside: Horsley Hill 43 Whiteleas 43 42 Deprivation Outer South Shields (2015) South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 23.9% 22.4 % 14.6% Child Poverty 30.3% 28.2% 19.9% Older People 25.3 % 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices Outer South Shields: £125,502 South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council (Nov 2017) What are the key sustainability issues?  Improve life expectancy, and particularly reduce childhood obesity.  Reduce income, child poverty and older person deprivation, particularly in the Simonside and Rekendyke, Biddick and All Saints, Cleadon Park and Horsley Hill wards.  Promote more market detached, bungalow and flat/maisonette housing and 1 and 2- bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance biodiversity/Geodiversity/Historic assets where appropriate.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.

 Protect and reduce the potential for flooding, particularly in the critical drainage area.  Promote more open space to allow healthier lifestyle choices particularly along the riverside.  Mitigating and reducing impacts upon the Boldon Lane Air Quality Management Zone.  Protect the overarching functions of the Green Belt.  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Addressing vacancy rates in district shopping centres.  Improving transport links where appropriate, including cycleway investment and continue to protect and safeguard the disused mineral lines and strategic coastal corridor.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate such as the Coastal Leas, including maintaining corridors, and providing new allotments, areas for children and young people and natural/semi-natural open space.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Jarrow

Character area The Jarrow character area comprises the Bede and Primrose wards. This area includes Jarrow town centre, residential areas, a riverside corridor of predominantly size: industrial area including the majority of the Port of Tyne estate, and the candidate World Heritage Site at St Paul’s. This area has had major transport 793 ha infrastructure improvements in the completion of the Tyne Tunnel 2 project completion and also benefits from two metro stations and a bus interchange in the Population: town centre. 16,242

Landscape Industrial - Jarrow Riverside, Simonside Industrial Estate and Tyne Dock which largely coincides with the Port of Tyne, all comprise large industrial buildings and Character Study: vacant sites. The latter including significant and large-scale dockside development. townscape/ Town Centre – the shopping and commercial area served by a metro/bus public transport interchange. landscape Residential – including residential areas surrounding the town centre, Jarrow South, Primrose and Simonside with its large single-age estates and continuous qualities building styles. Open Space – There is open space at Jarrow Riverside Park (Jarrow Riverside) which links to the newly formed open space corridor created by the Tyne Tunnel 2 project in Jarrow Centre. It also forms connections with the Don Valley which is an area of recreational open space with semi-natural woodland and a range of views from surrounding areas. This area provides a strategic green infrastructure corridor comprising of West Park, school playing fields and a large allotments site in Jarrow South and public open spaces along Monkton Dene/Burn which acts as a spine providing links and views to the River Don to the east and Lukes Lane playing fields to the west from the Primrose area. Heritage – the Don Valley also contains the St. Pauls Monastery and Bede’s World Museum which form part of the current candidate World Heritage site. This is a very popular tourist attraction, providing public recreational open space and is interestingly bordered by the Port of Tyne and Shell Oil depot.

What is the policy context?

The Core Strategy (2007), Site-Specific Allocations document (DPD) (2012) and Central Jarrow Area Action Plan (AAP) (2008) set out that the spatial strategy for the Jarrow character area. Policies seeks to:  Re-establish the town centre as the heart of community life  Build on an employment base with a sustainable shopping area focused around the Viking Centre.  Cultural, tourism and regeneration opportunities arising from the candidate World Heritage Site at St. Paul’s.  Development of the Port of Tyne and a range of other sites such as the Jarrow Green Business Park.  Connections between the town centre and Metro/bus station with Jarrow Riverside Park, St. Pauls and the surrounding residential communities.  Highway and public transport improvements.

Conservation Area Management Plan (SPD 13), set out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets in the St. Paul Conservation area. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

European Sites There are no SPA’/SAC’S. N/A JNCC There is a range of local wildlife sites in the Jarrow  Seek to protect and Number of SSSI’s and There are no SSSI’s in the Jarrow Character There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England character area covering 29.9 ha. Wildlife sites are largely enhance these Local Wildlife Area (ha) Area. Total area: 158.8 ha associated with the River Don and support a range of Sites and Local Nature Reserves. Condition of SSSI’s 96% favourable condition in South habitats. Tyneside Local Nature Reserves Primrose (4.5 ha) There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council South Tyneside Number and Area (ha) 1. Cemetery Road (4.4 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Inverness Road (4.9 ha) South Tyneside 3. Jarrow Slake Mud Flats (4.1 ha) 4. Primrose (4.5 ha) 5. River Don Saltmarsh (8.9 ha) 6. Straker Street (3.1 ha)

Total area of LWS in Character Area: 29.9 ha

Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Life Expectancy M F South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 JNSA The average life expectancy for males within this character  Improve female life expectancy Bede 75.5 79.7 area is similar to the borough average; however, female life in the Bede ward Primrose 75.5 78.9 expectancy in the Bede Ward is 4 years below the borough  Reduce child obesity levels Character Area Average 77 81.6 average and is the lowest in the borough (76.4%).  Seek to promote and encourage Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 14.1% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England Adult and childhood obesity levels are above the borough opportunities for healthy Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 27.4% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) average and healthy eating in adults is lower. The highest lifestyle choices through the Obese Adults Jarrow character area: 30.4 % South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealt levels of childhood obesity in the borough are in this Local Plan. Binge drinking adults Jarrow character area: 28.6% South Tyneside: 28.7% h.org.uk character area. Binge drinking is slightly lower than the Healthy eating adults Jarrow character area: 17.1% South Tyneside: 19.8% average for South Tyneside. Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Area (ha) Jarrow: 793 ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010) identifies  Ensure that flood risk in this Flood Risk Zones Riverside and River Don: Functional and tidal Flood Risk Zone 3 and Flood Risk Zone 2. that flooding issues in Jarrow are located along the River area is not exacerbated by Critical Drainage Areas Critical Drainage Area 2a: Area within floodplain of River Don (including Functional Tyne and River Don comprising functional floodplain with a future development. Floodplain) is at risk from surface water flooding. large area of Flood Risk Zone 2 and 3 on the Port of Tyne.

Critical Drainage Area 2b: Area is at risk from surface water flooding. There are also areas of varying vulnerability to surface water Historic Flood Risk Church Bank / Straker Street. 9 reported events 152 Flood Risk flooding with the most noticeable areas being located in the Port of Tyne, and Simonside industrial and residential Lindisfarne Roundabout & adjacent A194 19 reported events incidents in South estates. Critical Drainage Area 2a within the floodplain of York Avenue / Calf Close Lane 7 reported events Tyneside. the River Don has recorded historical flooding events in the Geodiversity Sites There are no geodiversity sites. There are 6 geodiversity sites in South vicinity and is within a medium risk drainage area as Tyneside – Total Ha: 36.8 ha classified by NWL. There is also Critical Drainage Area 2b Green Belt No Green Belt in the Jarrow character South Tyneside Green Belt: 2,408 (ha) which is at risk from surface water flooding, has recorded area. historical flooding events in the vicinity and is within a Landscape Local Development Framework: None Limestone Landscapes medium risk drainage area as classified by NWL. Designations Landscape Character Study: None Partnership Limestone Landscape Designations: None South Tyneside Council There are no Geodiversity sites, Green Belt, of Landscape Designations in this area. Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Air Quality Leam Lane/ Lindisfarne Roundabout, Jarrow There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside Council, Boldon Lane has been designated an Air Quality  Be aware of air quality issues Management Areas Pollutant Declared: Nitrogen Dioxide NO2 Areas in South Tyneside. DEFRA Management Area with Nitrogen Dioxide the declared within the borough. Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy pollutant. The expected impacts of climate change are  Consider potential climate climate change risks? increased flood risk due to increased precipitation and sea change risks and deliver level rise. The riverside areas of this character area may relevant adaptations and maybe more susceptible to these risks. mitigation measures. Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the Jarrow character area include: South Tyneside Council Key infrastructure assets in this character area include  Be aware of the key assets and Assets  Jarrow Town Centre Jarrow Town Centre and its industrial riverside corridor. functions of the character area.  Key Employment sites: Port of Tyne, Viking Enterprise Park, Tedco Business Work Key transport assets include the Tyne Tunnel and  Seek to retain and where Transport The Jarrow character area is served by: Pedestrian Tunnel, 2 metro stations, bus network and cycle possible improve all forms of Infrastructure  A19, A185, A194  Bus network  2 metro routes, and the strategic trunk and route network including transport provision in this  Tyne Tunnel and pedestrian tunnel  Cycle routes stations the A19, A185 and A194. Sections of the network including character area.

Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure the A19/A194 Lindisfarne junction, the A1300 John Reid  Provide adequate green Allotment Provision Ha Plots There are 23 Council owned allotment Road/A194 Leam Lane roundabout and the A194/A185 infrastructure provision to meet St. Paul’s Road 0.23 17 sites in South Tyneside. This provides Arches Roundabout require investment and the requirements of this Stirling Avenue 0.18 10 1347 plots. improvements. character area.

Tasmania Road 0.22 12  Seek to retain and where This character area benefits from river and railway mineral possible enhance allotment Harrisons Field 4.77 82 lines corridors, providing an important buffer to flooding, sites in this area. Hill Park 0.55 33 as well as recreational and wildlife provision. There is a  Maintain and improve the Character Area Total 5.95 154 district open space site at King George V Playing Fields, and quality of children’s play Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum a series of local open space sites following the Don provision. Play Provision King George Excellent Good Good 87% ‘good Valley/Monkton Dene/Burn strategic green infrastructure (2009) Low Simonside Good Good Good 87% standard’ corridor. There is a shortfall of children and young Queen's Road Fair Fair Fair 58% target people’s provision in the east of the Bede ward and natural Perth Green Fair Fair Fair 43% and semi-natural open space in the northwest of the Drewitts Park Poor Poor Fair 30% Primrose Ward. 66% of play sites in this character area Kirkstone Avenue Poor Poor Fair 17% are rated below the minimum ‘good standard’ Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan World Heritage Sites & 2 x Scheduled Ancient Monuments: 1 x World Heritage Site South The character area includes the candidate World Heritage  Consider the impact any Scheduled Ancient  St. Paul’s Church, Jarrow 1 x candidate World Heritage Site Tyneside Council Site at St Paul’s and 2 Scheduled Ancient Monuments at St. proposed development in this Monument  Bede Monastery, Jarrow 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments Paul’s Church and Bede Monastery. Jarrow Monastery and area would have on the historic Conservation Areas The St. Paul’s conservation areas is in the There are 11 conservation areas in the Church of St. Paul are both Grade I Listed Buildings. assets and settings and where Jarrow Character Area South Tyneside. Assets also include St Paul’s Conservation Area, as well as possible seek to preserve and Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South 10 Listed Buildings and 20 Locally Listed Buildings. There is enhance existing assets. Open Spaces Tyneside 1 museum at Bede’s World and 2 libraries at Primrose and  Retain and if possible improve Listed Buildings There are 10 Listed Buildings. There are 244 Listed Buildings in Jarrow. cultural provision in this South Tyneside. character area. Listed Buildings at Risk There is 1 listed building at risk in the Jarrow There are 10 listed buildings at risk in conservation area: Clubhouse in Jarrow Park South Tyneside. Locally Listed Heritage There are 20 Locally Listed Heritage Assets. There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage Assets Assets in South Tyneside. Museums There is 1 museums in the Jarrow character There are 3 museums and 8 libraries area: Bede’s World in South Tyneside. Libraries There are 2 libraries in the Jarrow character area: Primrose Library & Jarrow Library Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Levels of Primrose 8.6% Character area average 8.0% Office of National The main employment areas are located along the  Consider allocating additional unemployment (2011) Bede 7.4% South Tyneside: 6.6% Statistics riverside corridor. They include the Port of Tyne, employment sites in strong Employment Land in 231.1ha - Predominantly Industrial Area South Tyneside Council Simonside Industrial Estate and Bede Industrial Estate market locations. character area 12ha - vacant employment land Total job potential = circa 1,100 jobs which provide industrial and distribution jobs.  Any requirement for the Port of 0.65 – vacant employment expansion land Unemployment is above the borough average for South Tyne to expand onto the 910sqm – vacant office floorspace Tyneside. borough’s general employment 14,580sqm – vacant industrial/warehouse land supply should be Jarrow town centre retail vacancy rate is significantly than floorspace compensated for. the borough average for town centres. It has mixed-use  Mixed-use office allocations in site allocations including office provision; however the Identified Retail Areas Jarrow Town Centre is the main retail South Tyneside: Town Centres: 3 Jarrow Town Centre have Employment Land Review 2011 considered that these sites provision in the Jarrow character area. District Centres: 6 limited potential for this have limited potential for office use in the current market.

Retail Provision (2012) Number of Retail Total Net Retail Total Vacant It also identifies strong levels of take-up within the Port of particular use. Units Floorspace (m²) Units % Tyne estate, and moderate take-up within the Simonside  Increase levels of employment Jarrow Town Centre 88 19,225.03 5 5.7 and Bede areas. The Hebburn/Jarrow Riverside area has in the Jarrow character area Town Centres 403 75,575.4 59 14.6 also seen strong demand. The review recommends the de-  Maintain low retail vacancy Borough Total 1430 155,055.7 181 12.7 allocation of sites where market demand is weak, and levels additional employment land allocations should be directed Number of schools in Jarrow South Tyneside  ensure that the education to those areas of strong demand. It also has identified the character area Secondary 1 9 needs of the character area are Port of Tyne as a strong growth sector and recommends Primary 7 45 adequately provided for that it should be supported. Other 2 8 GCSE Achievement (5 2014 Character South Department for Employment Land Monitoring (August 2013) identifies a GCSE’s A*-C) (2014) Primrose 43.7% Area Tyneside: Education range of employment premises/sites in this character area Bede 44.2% average: 54.2% with potential to provide for circa 1,100 jobs. However 43.95% some of these are not immediately available. People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Population (2010): Character Area 16,242 South Tyneside: 148,127 Public Health England Deprivation is an issue, with levels of income, child poverty  Ensure facilities meet the needs Ethnicity (2011) Bede Primrose South Tyneside Office of National and old person’s deprivation all higher than the borough of the population. White % Statistics average, and considerably higher than the national  Seek to reduce all forms of British 96.8 96.7 95.1 average. Overall deprivation is a significant issue along the deprivation in this character Irish 0.2 0.2 0.2 riverside and around the town centre. area. Gypsy /Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0 0.0  Ensure that house prices Average house prices are around £25,000 below the Other 0.5 0.5 0.7 remain affordable in this area borough average. The Strategic Housing Market Mixed % whilst providing for adequate Assessment (SHMA 2013) identifies that in the majority of White & Black Caribbean 0.3 0.2 0.2 housing needs. this character area there is an imbalance between supply White & Black African 0.2 0.2 0.2 and demand with a shortfall of market detached, semi- White & Asian 0.2 0.2 0.3 detached and flat/maisonette housing. There is also a need Other 0.2 0.2 0.2 for more affordable 1 and 2-bedroom homes. Asian/ Asian British % Indian 0.3 0.2 0.4 Pakistani 0.0 0.1 0.3 Bangladeshi 0.3 0.4 1.0 Chinese 0.2 0.2 0.2 Other 0.2 0.3 0.3 Black / Black British % African 0.1 0.1 0.2 Caribbean 0.0 0.0 0.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 Other % Arab 0.2 0.2 0.4 Other 0.2 0.2 0.3 Age of Population Primrose 41 Character area average: 41 Office of National (2011) Bede 41 South Tyneside average: 42 Statistics Deprivation Jarrow (2015) South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 29.7 % 22.4 % 14.6% Child Poverty 34.8% 28.2% 19.9% Older People 34.1% 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices Character area average: South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council (Nov 2017) £123,612

What are the key sustainability issues?  Improve life expectancy, including boosting adults health eating.  Reduce deprivation, including income, child poverty and older person deprivation.  Promote more market detached, semi-detached and flat/maisonette housing and 1 and 2- bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance Biodiversity and Historic assets where appropriate, particularly the candidate World Heritage Site at St Paul’s.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding, particularly in the critical drainage areas.  Mitigating and reducing impacts upon the Lindisfarne/Leam Lane Air Quality Management Zone  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Supporting the sustainable economic growth of the Port of Tyne.  Supporting Jarrow Town Centre.  Improving transport links where appropriate, with particular investment in proposed cycleways and Lindisfarne, Newcastle/John Reid Road and the Arches junctions.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate, including maintaining corridors such as at Don Valley/ Monkton Dene/Burn, and providing new allotments, areas for children and young people and natural/semi-natural open space.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Hebburn

Character area The Hebburn character area comprises the Hebburn North, Hebburn South and Monkton wards. This area includes Hebburn Town Centre, residential areas, and size: 778 ha predominantly industrial areas along the riverside, Victoria Road and at Monkton Business Park. The area includes Hebburn Riverside Park and Campbell Park, Population: and links to Wardley County Park via the Monkton Mineral Line. The area borders the Green Belt to the west comprising an important separation between the 26,016 borough and Gateshead. Landscape Industrial/Warehouse - Jarrow Riverside and distinct areas of Hebburn Riverside, Hebburn North, Hebburn Centre and Hebburn South include industrial units Character Study: and Monkton Fell includes Monkton Business Park North with large scale warehousing. townscape/ Town Centre – Hebburn Centre includes clusters of old terraces and semi-detached dwellings which surround a shopping centre, served by a metro station and landscape bus stops. The centre also includes high-rise developments which act as landmarks, as does St Andrew’s Church to the north. qualities Residential –Hebburn North, Town Centre, Hebburn South, Jarrow South and Primrose all comprise residential areas, some interspersed with schools, churches and shops. Open Space – Hebburn Riverside is an important area of open space with views across and along the River Tyne. It provides an open space corridor with links into Gateshead, and is the largest area of public riverside access in the borough. Carr-Ellison Park is an important area of mature park falling in the Hebburn Centre and Hebburn South areas. The latter area also includes Campbell Park and linear green corridors that connect to the urban fringe. Monkton Fell provides open space, regenerating woodland areas and networks of public access which form key green infrastructure corridors linking the urban area to the surrounding Green Belt.

What is the policy context? The Core Strategy (2007), Site-Specific Allocations (2012) and Hebburn Town Centre Area Action Plan (AAP) (2008) sets out the spatial strategy for the Hebburn character area. Policies seek to:  Reinvigorate Hebburn as a popular and sustainable town,  Provide a good quality and well managed local shopping centre  Enhanced sustainable urban living and connections for all by sustainable modes of travel will be strengthened.  Environmental assets will be protected including the openness of the Green Belt.  Highways and public transport improvements.

Conservation Area Management Plans (SPD 16 & 17) for the Hebburn Hall and Monkton Conservation Areas, set out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets in these areas. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

European Sites There are no SPA’/SAC’S. N/A JNCC Areas of biodiversity value are limited to two Local Wildlife  Seek to protect and enhance Number of SSSI’s and There are no SSSI’s There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England Sites in the Hebburn character area. These are Hebburn these Local Wildlife Sites in Area (ha) Total area: 158.8 ha Riverside and Monkton Pond and Woods the Hebburn character area Condition of SSSI’s 96% favourable condition in South Tyneside Local Nature Reserves There are no LNR’s. There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council South Tyneside Number and Area (ha) 1. Hebburn Riverside (10.4 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Monkton Pond and Wood (2.9 ha) South Tyneside Total area of LWS in Character Area: 13.3 ha Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan M % F% South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 JNSA The average life expectancy for females in the Hebburn  Improve male life Hebburn North 74.9 78.4 North ward and males in this character area is below the expectancy across character Life Expectancy Hebburn South 77 83.1 borough average. Levels of childhood obesity are below the area and female life Monkton 77.4 80.6 average for South Tyneside. Whilst the levels of obesity and expectancy in Hebburn Average 76.4 80.7 healthy eating amongst adults in the Hebburn character North. Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 11.2% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England area is roughly in line with the borough average, binge  Seek to promote and 16

Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 21.8 % South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) drinking are amongst the highest in the borough. encourage opportunities for Obese Adults Hebburn character area: 27.6% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealth. healthy lifestyle choices Binge drinking adults Hebburn character area: 31% South Tyneside: 28.7% org.uk through the Local Plan. Healthy eating adults Hebburn character area: 19.3 % South Tyneside: 19.8% Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Area (ha) Hebburn: 778 ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010) identifies  Ensure that flood risk in this Flood Risk Zones Riverside and River Don: Functional floodplain. flooding issues in Hebburn located along the River Tyne and area is not exacerbated by Critical Drainage Areas Critical Drainage Area 1: Area has numerous recorded historical flooding events, is River Don tributaries comprising functional floodplain. future development. shown at risk from surface water flooding. There are areas of vulnerability to surface water flooding  Seek to protect the Historic Flood Risk Lukes Lane – 7 reported events. 152 Flood Risk incidents in South with the most notably areas located in the town centre, functions of the Green Belt. Campbell Park Estate – 4 reported events. Tyneside. Campbell Park and Hebburn Comprehensive School. Critical Geodiversity Sites There are no geodiversity sites. There are 6 geodiversity sites in South Drainage Area 1 has numerous recorded historical flooding Tyneside : 36.8 ha events and is at risk from surface water flooding. Green Belt Character area within Green Belt: 20 ha South Tyneside Green Belt: 2,408 (ha) Landscape Local Development Framework: None Limestone Landscapes Designations Landscape Character Study: None Partnership Limestone Landscape Designations: None South Tyneside Council Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Air Quality There are no AQMA’s. There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside Council, The expected impacts of climate change are increased flood  Consider potential climate Management Areas Areas in South Tyneside. DEFRA risk due to increased precipitation and sea level rise. change risks and deliver Riverside areas may maybe more susceptible to these risks. relevant adaptation and Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy Furthermore, increase wind speeds and storms in coastal mitigation measures. climate change risks? areas may also pose a risk to buildings and infrastructure. Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the Hebburn character area include: South Tyneside Council Key infrastructure assets in this character area include  Be aware of the key assets Assets  Hebburn Town Centre  Hebburn Swimming Pool Hebburn Town Centre, Hebburn Civic site and swimming and functions of the  Monkton Stadium  Key Employment sites: Bedewell Industrial pool and the strategic sport/leisure/community hub at character area.  Hebburn Civic Site Park, Eco-centre, Monkton Business Park Monkton Stadium. Key transport assets include Hebburn  Seek to retain and where Transport The Hebburn character area is served by: Metro station, bus services, cycle routes and footpaths possible improve all forms of Infrastructure  A185  1 metro stations  Bus network  Cycle routes including the former Monkton Mineral Line and the strategic transport provision in this Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Material Assets- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure route network including the A185. Particular junctions that character area. require investment and improvement include the Victoria Allotment Provision Ha Plots There are 23 Council owned allotment  Provide adequate green Road/Station Road junction which is a main gateway into South Drive 2.67 94 sites in South Tyneside. This provides infrastructure provision to the town centre, and two junctions along Mill Lane. Wood Terrace 0.18 7 1347 plots. meet the requirements of this character area. Character Area Total 2.85 101 This character area benefits from Green Belt, river and  Retain and where possible Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum railway mineral lines corridors. All of these corridors provide enhance allotment sites in Play Provision School Street Good Fair Fair 63% ‘good an extensive network of public access linking the urban area this area. (2009) West Park Fair Good Fair 62% standard’ to the surrounding Green Belt. There is an identified  Improve the quality of Carr Ellison Fair Good Fair 57% target shortfall in allotment provision, with accessibility deficiency children’s play provision. Glen Street Fair Fair Good 53% in the Hebburn South and Monkton Fell. There is also a Lukes Lane Fair Fair Fair 53% shortfall in children and young people’s play area provision Clegwell Fair Fair Fair 47% and natural and semi-natural open space in the Hebburn Clegwell Fair Fair Fair 43% North ward. 88% of play sites in this character area are Monkton Dene Fair Fair Fair 53% rated below the minimum ‘good standard’. Monkton Dene Poor Fair Poor 37% 17

Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan World Heritage Sites & There are no World Heritage sites or 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council The character area includes the Hebburn Hall and Monkton  Consider the impact any Scheduled Ancient Scheduled Ancient Monuments. 1 x candidate World Heritage Site Conservation Area, as well as 21 Listed Buildings, including proposed development in Monument 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments Bede cottage and Bede house (Grade II*); and 13 Locally this area would have on the Conservation Areas There are 2 conservation areas in the There are 11 conservation areas in Listed Buildings. There is 1 library in Hebburn Town Centre. historic assets and settings Hebburn character area: South Tyneside. and where possible seek to  Hebburn Hall  Monkton preserve and enhance Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South existing assets. Open Spaces Tyneside  Retain and if possible Listed Buildings There are 21 Listed Buildings There are 244 Listed Buildings in South improve cultural provision in Tyneside. this character area. Listed Buildings at Risk There are 3 listed buildings at risk in the There are 10 listed buildings at risk in  Reduce the number of listed Hebburn character area: South Tyneside. buildings at risk  Hawthorn Leslie  Fountain on wall at Hawthorn Leslie  Bede’s Well Locally Listed Heritage There are 13 Locally Listed Heritage Assets. There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage Assets Assets in South Tyneside. Museums There are no museums. There are 3 museums and 8 libraries in Libraries There is 1library in the Hebburn character South Tyneside. area: Hebburn Library Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Levels of Hebburn North 6.7% Character area South Tyneside: Office of National The town centre has around 15 units vacant, one of the  Consider de-allocating unemployment (2011) Hebburn South 5.7% average: 6.0% 6.6% Statistics highest vacancy rates in the borough. Average employment sites where Monkton 5.7% unemployment is below the borough average but Hebburn market demand is weak, Employment Land in 80.4ha - Predominantly Industrial Area South Tyneside Council North is slightly above. subject to viability, and character area 19ha - vacant employment land Total job potential = circa 1,680 jobs allocating additional land in 250sqm – vacant office floorspace The main employment areas are located along the strong market locations. 18,450sqm – vacant industrial/warehouse riverside corridor including the Wagonway, Prince Consort,  Retain and where possible floorspace Victoria Road, Holystone and Ashworth Frazer Industrial Increase levels of Identified Retail Areas Hebburn Town Centre is the main retail South Tyneside: Estates as well as Monkton Business Park North. The employment in the Hebburn provision in the Hebburn character area. Town Centres: 3 Employment Land Review 2011 identifies high levels of character area District Centres: 6 employment land provision in Hebburn but weak demand.  Reduce vacancy rates in Retail Provision (2012) Number of Total Net Retail Total Vacant Whilst Hebburn/Jarrow Riverside has seen stronger Hebburn town centre demand, this is considered to have been supported by its Retail Units Floorspace (m²) Units %  The Local Plan should ensure historical Enterprise Zone status, and this broad area is Hebburn Town Centre 64 5,796.3 15 23.4 that the education needs of now considered to have challenges for future Town Centres 403 75,575.4 59 14.6 the character area are development. The review recommends the de-allocation Borough Total 1430 155,055.7 181 12.7 adequately provided for of sites where market demand is weak, and additional Number of schools in Hebburn South Tyneside employment land allocations should be directed to those character area Secondary 2 9 areas of strong demand. Primary 7 45 Other 2 8 Employment Land Monitoring (August 2013) identifies a GCSE Achievement (5 Hebburn North 50.9% Character area South Tyneside Department for range of employment premises/sites with potential to GCSE’s A*-C) (2014) Hebburn South 49.8% average: 49.6% average: 54.2% Education provide for circa 1,680 jobs. Monkton 48.2%

People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Population (2015) Character Area total population: 25,096 South Tyneside: 148,671 Public Health England The population in this character is predominantly white  Ensure facilities meet the

Ethnicity (2011) Hebburn North Hebburn South Monkton South Tyneside Office of National British and slightly younger than the borough average, with needs of the population. White % Statistics the average age in the Hebburn North ward 5years below  Seek to reduce all forms of British 96.8 97.4 97.5 95.1 the borough average. deprivation in this character Irish 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 area. Deprivation is an issue, with levels of old person’s Gypsy /Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  Ensure that house prices deprivation higher than the borough average, and Other 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.7 remain affordable in this considerably higher than the national average. Overall Mixed % area whilst providing for White & Black Caribbean 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 deprivation is a significant issue around the town centre. adequate housing needs. White & Black African 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 Average house prices are around £25,000 below the White & Asian 0.1 0.3 0.1 0.3 borough average. The Strategic Housing Market Other 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 Assessment (SHMA 2013) identifies that in the majority of Asian/ Asian British % this character area there is an imbalance between supply Indian 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.4 and demand with a shortfall of market semi-detached, Pakistani 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.3 bungalow and flat/maisonette housing, with a specific Bangladeshi 0.1 0.2 0.1 1.0 need for 1-bedroom properties. There is also a need for Chinese 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 more affordable 1-bedroom homes.

Other 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.3 Black / Black British %

African 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 Caribbean 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 Other 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Other % Arab 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.4 Other 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.3 Age of Population Hebburn North 37 Character area South Tyneside Office of National (2011) Hebburn South 45 average: 41 average: 42 Statistics Monkton 43 Deprivation Hebburn (2015) South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 21.6% 22.4 % 14.6% Child Poverty 26.7% 28.2% 19.9% Older People 27.6% 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices Character Area Average South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council (Nov 2017) £133,585 What are the key sustainability issues?  Improve life expectancy, including reducing binge drinking levels.  Reduce deprivation, specifically older person’s deprivation  Promote more market semi-detached, bungalow and flat/maisonette housing and 1-bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance Biodiversity and Historic assets where appropriate.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding, particularly in the critical drainage areas.  Protect the overarching functions of the Green Belt  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Supporting the regeneration of Hebburn Town Centre and addressing vacancy rates.  Improving transport links where appropriate, with particular investment in cycleways and at road junctions at Station Road and along Mill Lane.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate, including maintaining corridors such as at Monkton Burn, and providing new allotments, areas for children and young people and 19

natural/semi-natural open space.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Fellgate and Hedworth

Character area The Fellgate and Hedworth character area comprises the Fellgate and Hedworth ward. This area includes the residential areas, including local shops, schools and a size: 856.9ha metro station. There is also Monkton Business Park South, and Red Barns Quarry. The area includes a vast area of Green Belt, which provides an important Population: separation between the borough and Gateshead and Sunderland. The A184, A194 and A19 road infrastructure provide good accessibility to the area. 7,989

Landscape Residential –Fellgate and Hedworth comprise extensive residential areas with associated community buildings and facilities, bounded by dual carriageways, Character Study: subdivided by the large wooded metro embankment, but open on the southern boundary to the urban fringe Green Belt. townscape/ Light Industrial/Office –Monkton Business Park South provides a range of business units. landscape Mineral Extraction - active brick shale/clay extraction at Red Barns Quarry. qualities Open Space – Green Belt is located to the south of the character area providing an important separation between South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland. It comprises of large arable fields and key road infrastructure. This area provides long ranging views south towards Penshaw Monument and east towards Cleadon Hill. Red Barns Quarry links with Wardley Country Park to the north. Planned restoration of this site will provide recreational and wildlife benefits. There are also areas of regenerating woodland and extensive networks of public access which form key green infrastructure corridors linking in with the urban area.

What is the policy context?

The Core Strategy (2007) and the Site-Specific Allocations document (DPD) (2012) provides the policy framework for the Fellgate and Hedworth area. Policies seek to:  Maximising the re-use of previously-developed land in the built up areas.  Allocates land for land new economic development  Gypsy and traveller provision.  Reclamation and enhancement of Red Barns Quarry  Environmental assets will be protected including the openness of the Green Belt.  Highways and public transport improvements

Sunderland City Council / South Tyneside Council City Deal 2013 Both Sunderland City Council and South Tyneside Council are working in partnership to progress a ‘City Deal’ with Central Government which could provide an advanced manufacturing centre. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan European Sites There are no SPA’/SAC’S. N/A JNCC There are 8 Local Wildlife Sites in the Fellgate and Hedworth  Protect and enhance these Number of SSSI’s and There are no SSSI’s There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England (2013) area, covering 61 ha. The largest site is Wardley Colliery, Local Wildlife Sites in the Area (ha) Total area: 158.8 ha which comprises of colliery spoil and provides a large ‘early Fellgate & Hedworth character Condition of SSSI’s 96% favourable condition in South successional’ Brownfield site. Other wildlife sites in this area. Tyneside area are associated with the River Don. Local Nature Reserves There are no LNR’s. There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council South Tyneside Number and Area (ha) 1. Calf Close Burn (2.7 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Elliscope Farm East/ (3.5 ha) South Tyneside Hylton Bridge 3. Follingsby (0.2 ha) 4. Hedworth Dene (4.0 ha) 5. Lakeside Inn (2.0 ha) 6. River Don, East House (1.4 ha)

7. Strother House Farm (3.3ha) 8. Wardley Colliery (43.9 ha)

Total area of LWS in Character Area: 61 ha

Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

Life Expectancy Fellgate & Hedworth M F South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 JNSA Both male and female life expectancy exceeds the borough’s  Maintain life expectancy 79.4 80.4 average. Levels of childhood obesity are below the average levels. Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 10.5% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England for South Tyneside. Levels of healthy eating amongst adults  Seek to promote and Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 26.1% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) in the Fellgate and Hedworth character area is roughly in encourage opportunities for Obese Adults Fellgate & Hedworth character area: 30.3% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealth line with the borough average, however, levels of adult healthy lifestyle choices Binge drinking adults Fellgate & Hedworth character area: 32.7% South Tyneside: 28.7% .org.uk obesity and binge drinking are amongst the highest in the through the Local Plan Healthy eating adults Fellgate & Hedworth character area: 18.6% South Tyneside: 19.8% borough. Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Area (ha) Fellgate & Hedworth: 856.9ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010) identifies  Ensure that flood risk in this Flood Risk Zones River Don: Functional floodplain. that flooding issues in Fellgate and Hedworth are located area is not exacerbated by Critical Drainage Areas N/A along the River Don tributaries comprising functional future development. Historic Flood Risk No recorded incidents floodplain. There are also areas of varying vulnerability to  The Green Belt is an important Geodiversity Sites There are no geodiversity sites. There are 6 geodiversity sites in South surface water flooding along these tributaries and in feature of this character area. Tyneside – Total Hectares: 36.8 ha isolated parts of the Green Belt. The Local Plan should seek to protect the functions of the Green Belt Character area within Green Belt: 660 ha South Tyneside Green Belt: 2,408 (ha) Around 77% of the character area (660ha) is within Green Green Belt. Landscape Local Development Framework: None Limestone Landscapes Belt. It forms an important settlement break between

Designations Landscape Character Study: None Partnership South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland. Limestone Landscape Designations: None South Tyneside Council

Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Air Quality There are no AQMA’s. There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside Council, The impacts of climate change area expected to result  Consider potential climate Management Areas Areas in South Tyneside. DEFRA increased flood risk due to increased precipitation and sea change risks and deliver Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy level rise. relevant adaptations and climate change risks? mitigation measures.

Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the Fellgate & Hedworth character area include: South Tyneside Council Key infrastructure assets in this character area include Red  Be aware of the key assets and Assets  Wardley Colliery  Red Barnes quarry Barns Quarry, which provides aggregates, the strategic trunk functions of the area. Transport The Fellgate & Hedworth character area is served by: network, and the Fellgate metro station. There are  Seek to retain and improve all Infrastructure  1 metro station  Bus network requirements for key junction improvements at A19 Testos forms of transport provision in  A19, A194, A184  Cycle route and A194 White Mare Pool. There is also the disused this character area. Leamside Railway Line adjacent to Wardley Colliery. The Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure  Seek to provide adequate Green Belt in general comprises key green infrastructure. Allotment Provision There are no allotment There are 23 Council owned allotment sites in South green infrastructure provision to meet the requirements of sites. Tyneside. This provides 1347 plots. Strategic green infrastructure corridors are provided by the this character area. Quality of Children’s There is no recorded data for the quality of children’s play provision in this character Green Belt, river and former/existing railway mineral lines.  If possible seek to provide Play Provision area. These corridors provide networks of public access linking allotment provision or ensure (2009) the urban area to the Green Belt. However there is an demands are accommodated absence of access into the Green Belt immediately to the 21

south of the Fellgate and Hedworthfield. There is also in neighbouring character shortfall in allotment and children and young people areas. provision.  Improve the quality of children’s play provision. Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan

World Heritage Sites & There are no World Heritage sites or 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council There are 9 Listed Buildings, with Scot’s House being the  Seek to enhance and preserve Scheduled Ancient Scheduled Ancient Monuments. 1 x candidate World Heritage Site only Grade II* Listed Building in this area. heritage assets in this Monument 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments character area. Conservation Areas There are no conservation areas. There are 11 conservation areas in South  Reduce the number of listed Tyneside. buildings at risk. Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South  Retain and if possible improve Open Spaces Tyneside cultural provision in this Listed Buildings There are 9 Listed Buildings. There are 244 Listed Buildings in South character area. Tyneside. Listed Buildings at Risk There are 2 listed buildings at risk: There are 10 listed buildings at risk in  Laverick Hall & Linked Outbuildings South Tyneside.  Barn Ranges at Laverick Hall Locally Listed Heritage There are 2 Locally Listed Heritage Assets. There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage Assets Assets in South Tyneside. Museums There are no museums. There are 3 museums and 8 libraries in Libraries There are no libraries. South Tyneside.

Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Levels of Fellgate & Heworth : 6.2% South Tyneside: 6.6% Office of National Unemployment is below the borough average. The main  Consider allocating additional unemployment (2011) Statistics employment area in this character area is Monkton Business employment sites in strong

Employment Land in 6.9ha - Predominantly Industrial Area Total job potential = circa 1,270 jobs South Tyneside Council Park South which contains a number of vacant employment market locations. character area 5.6ha - vacant employment land units/sites.  Retain and where possible 1,680sqm – vacant office floorspace Increase levels of The South Tyneside Employment Land Review 2011 Identified Retail Areas There are no identified retail areas. South Tyneside: Town Centres: 3 employment. identifies Monkton has high demand for employment land, District Centres: 6  There are no identified retail but there is limited supply. The review recommends the de- areas within this character Retail Provision (2012) No data allocation of sites where market demand is weak, and area. However, the Local Plan Number of schools in Fellgate & Hedworth South Tyneside additional employment land allocations should be directed should seek to support character area Secondary 0 9 to those areas of strong demand. Employment Land existing retail provision. Primary 3 45 Monitoring (August 2013) identifies there is limited available Other 0 8 employment land in this area with the potential for circa  Ensure that the education GCSE Achievement Fellgate & Hedworth - 37% South Tyneside: 54.2% Department for 1,270 jobs. needs of the character area (5 GCSE’s A*-C) Education are adequately provided for.

People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Population Character Area: 7,637 South Tyneside :148,671 Public Health England This character area has a slightly younger population than  Ensure facilities meet the Ethnicity (2011) Fellgate & Hedworth South Tyneside Office of National the borough average. Average house prices are in line with needs of the population. White % Statistics the borough average.  Seek to reduce all forms of British 98.2 95.1 deprivation in this character Irish 0.2 0.2 Deprivation is an issue, with levels of child poverty

Gypsy /Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0 deprivation higher than the borough and national average. area. Other 0.5 0.7 Overall deprivation is an issue within the North Fellgate and  Ensure that house prices Mixed % Hedworthfield areas. remain affordable in this area White & Black Caribbean 0.0 0.2 whilst providing for adequate White & Black African 0.0 0.2 The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA 2013) housing needs. White & Asian 0.2 0.3 considers housing need at the wider Jarrow level which Other 0.1 0.2 includes Hedworth and Fellgate. Therefore the data only Asian/ Asian British % gives a broad indication regarding needs. There is an Indian 0.3 0.4 identified need for more market detached, semi-detached Pakistani 0.0 0.3 and flats/apartments/maisonettes, with a specific need for Bangladeshi 0.0 1.0 2-bedroom properties. There is also a need for more Chinese 0.1 0.2 affordable 1 and 2-bedroom homes. Other 0.1 0.3 Black / Black British % African 0.0 0.2 Caribbean 0.1 0.0 Other 0.0 0.0 Other % Arab 0.1 0.4 Other 0.0 0.3 Age of Population Fellgate & Hedworth: 41 South Tyneside: 42 Deprivation Fellgate & Hedworth (2015) South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 21.5% 22.4 % 14.6% Child Poverty 29.6 % 28.2% 19.9% Older People 22.3 % 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices Fellgate and Hedworth: £140,937 South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council (Nov 2017) What are the key sustainability issues?  Improve life expectancy, including reducing adult obesity and binge drinking levels.  Reduce deprivation, particularly child poverty deprivation.  Promote more market detached, semi-detached, and flat/maisonette housing and 1 and 2-bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance Biodiversity and Historic assets where appropriate.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding, particularly along the River Don tributaries.  Protect the overarching functions of the Green Belt.  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Improving transport links where appropriate, including improvements along the Strategic Trunk Network, and to existing / proposed cycleways / footpaths. Improving recreational access into the Green Belt should be considered.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate, including maintaining corridors such as at Calfclose Burn, and providing new allotments and areas for children and young people.  Safeguarding mineral resources against sterilisation, particularly in the Red Barns Quarry area subject to any future extraction requirements.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Boldon and Cleadon

Character area The Boldons and Cleadon character area comprises the Boldon Colliery and Cleadon and East Boldon wards which include the residential areas of Boldon Colliery, size: East and West Boldon and Cleadon. There is Boldon Colliery district shopping centre and local centres in East Boldon and Cleadon, together with Boldon Business 1,651ha Park and Cleadon Lane Industrial Estate that provide the majority of employment. The A19, A184, A1018, two metro stations and various bus stops provide Population: accessibility in the area. There is a vast area of Green Belt, which provides an important separation between the urban and urban fringe villages, as well as 18,140 Sunderland. There are also two Local Landscape Designations at Cleadon Hills and Boldon Downhill.

Landscape Residential – Residential areas are focused in three areas, Boldon Colliery, and the historic cores of Cleadon and East and West Boldon. Character Study: Economic Development- extensive business and retail developments established along the A19 and A184 junction. townscape/ Green Belt – Extensive area of open arable farmland with some pasture to the south and north of the villages. landscape Open Space – Consists of areas of semi-natural and amenity space which follows the River Don corridor. qualities

What is the policy context?

The Local Development Framework Core Strategy (2007) sets out that the spatial strategy for the borough. Policies relevant to this character area include:  Promote opportunities along the A19 Economic Growth Corridor  Managing the phased release of land for new housing development consistent with the spatial strategy and regeneration priorities for South Tyneside, by maximising the re-use of previously developed land, in the built up areas  Create a strong sense of place by strengthening the distinctive historic and cultural qualities and townscape of our towns and villages, and promote high quality design  Protect and enhance the openness of Green Belt  Preserve the special and separate characters of the urban fringe villages of Boldon Colliery, West Boldon, East Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn  Implementing the Great North Forest’s strategies in the River Don Valley, Downhill, Boldon/Cleadon, Cleadon Hills and North Sunderland Local Management Zones  Creating new priority habitats, especially in the Habitat Creation Zones of Cleadon Hills, Downhill and the River Don Valley

Conservation Area Management Plans (SPD 11, 14, 15 & 18) for the West Boldon, Cleadon, East Boldon and Cleadon Hills Conservation Areas, set out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets in these areas. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan European Sites There are no SPA’/SAC’S. N/A JNCC There are 3 SSSI’s identified in this character area, 2 which  Improve the condition of Boldon Number of SSSI’s and  Cleadon Hills (10.19 ha) There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England are recorded to be in a ‘favourable’ condition and 1 being Pastures. Area (ha)  West Farm Meadow (3.08 ha) Total area: 158.8 ha ‘unfavourable’. There are also 4 Local Nature Reserves and  The variety and quantity of Condition of SSSI’s  Boldon Pastures (3.55 ha) 96% favourable condition in South 22 Local Wildlife Sites. biodiversity assets in the Boldon Tyneside and Cleadon character area is an Local Nature Reserves  Tilesheds *Marsden Old There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council important asset to the borough.  Cleadon Hills Quarry also falls South Tyneside The Local Plan should seek to within the  Marsden Old Quarry* protect and enhance these Whitburn assets.  Station Burn Character Area Number and Area (ha) 1. Black Plantation (1.0 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Boldon Colliery former (1.2 ha) South Tyneside Railway Line 3. Boldon Crossings Pond (2.4 ha) 4. Boldon Flats (34.2ha) 5. Boldon Lake (2.9 ha) 6. Cleadon Hill Cliffs (1.3 ha)

7. Cleadon Pumping Station (2.9 ha) 8. Cleadon Quarry (3.4 ha) 9. Cotman Gardens (4.1 ha) 10. Downhill Old Quarry (3.0 ha) 11. Low House Copse (0.8 ha) 12. Make Me Rich Meadow (3.3 ha) 13. Mount Pleasant Marsh (8.3 ha) 14. Marsden Old Quarry * (19.3 ha) 15. Newton Garths (9.6 ha) 16. River Don, New Road (1.3 ha) 17. River Don, North Road (1.1 ha) 18. River Don, West Boldon (2.9 ha) 19. Station Burn (16.2 ha) 20. Tilesheads Burn (4.7 ha) 21. Tilesheads (1.3 ha) 22. Undercliffe Pond (0.6 ha)

Total area of LWS in Character Area: 125.8 ha Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan M F JNSA Both male and female life expectancy exceeds the borough’s  Maintain life expectancy levels Cleadon & East Boldon 82.2 87 average. Cleadon & East Boldon has the highest male and and ensure needs of older Life Expectancy South Tyneside : M 77.2 F 81.7 Boldon Colliery 78.9 82.1 female life expectancy levels in South Tyneside. Levels of people are provided for in this Character Area Average 80.5 84.6 childhood obesity, adult obesity and binge drinking are character area. Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 8.1% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England below the borough average. Levels of healthy eating are 5%  Encourage and promote Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 18.8% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) above the borough average opportunities to maintain Obese Adults Boldon & Cleadon: 24.1% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localhealt healthy lifestyle choices. Binge drinking adults Boldon & Cleadon: 27.8% South Tyneside: 28.7% h.org.uk

Healthy eating adults Boldon & Cleadon: 24.9% South Tyneside: 19.8% Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Area (ha) Boldons and Cleadon: 1,651ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside Council The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010) identifies  Ensure that flood risk in this area Flood Risk Zones River Don: Functional floodplain and Flood Risk Zones 3 and 2. that there are a range of flooding issues in the character is not exacerbated by future Boldon Flats Local Wildlife Site: Functional floodplain area, predominantly along the River Don and its tributaries, development. Critical Drainage Areas Critical Drainage Area 4a: Area within floodplain of a tributary of the River Don comprising functional and Flood Risk Zones 3 and 2. There is  Continue to protect areas of (including Functional Floodplain), at risk from surface water flooding and is within a high also a large area of functional floodplain in the vicinity of geodiversity value. risk drainage area as classified by NWL. Boldon Flats Local Wildlife Site. There are flood defences to  The Green Belt is an important

address issues with flooding along some sections of the feature of this character area. Critical Drainage Area 4b: Area within floodplain of a tributary of the River Don River Don. There are also areas of varying vulnerability to (including Functional Floodplain), at risk from surface water flooding and is within a high The Local Plan should seek to surface water flooding, with notable parts north and east of protect the Green Belt. risk drainage area as classified by NWL. East Boldon. There are also 2 Critical Drainage Areas 4a and  Consider any existing and Historic Flood Risk Testos Roundabout/A19 – 13 reported events. 152 Flood Risk incidents in South 4b which are predominantly rural and within the floodplains proposed landscape Reay Crescent – 4 reported events. Tyneside. of tributaries of the River Don (which include Functional designations in this area. Cleadon Lea – 7 reported events. Floodplain and are shown at risk from surface water Moor Lane – 4 reported events. flooding) and are within a high risk drainage areas as Geodiversity Sites There are 4 geodiversity sites: There are 6 geodiversity sites in South classified by NWL. There have been historic flood events  Cleadon Hill Cliffs (1.3 ha) Tyneside – Total Hectares: 36.8 ha reported at Testos Roundabout, Reay Crescent, Cleadon Lea  Cleadon Park Quarry (6.1ha) and Moor Lane.  Downhill Old Quarry (1.5 ha)

 Mardens Old Quarry* (13.8 ha) There are 4 geodiversity sites at Cleadon Hill Cliffs, Cleadon Green Belt Character area in Green Belt: 1144 ha South Tyneside Green Belt: 2,408 (ha) Park Quarry, Downhill Old Quarry and Marsden Old Quarry. Landscape Local Development Framework: Limestone Landscapes There are Coastal Limestone Plateau, Clay Plateau, and Designations  Cleadon Hills,  Boldon Downhill Partnership Limestone Escarpment designations identified by the Landscape Character Study: South Tyneside Council Limestone Landscape Partnership, and Local Landscape  Cleadon Hills,  Boldon Downhill designations at Cleadon Hills and Boldon Downhill as Limestone Landscape Designations: identified in the South Tyneside Landscape Character Study  Coastal Limestone Plateau  Clay Plateau  Limestone Escarpment (2012). The character area also includes 1144ha (48%) of the borough’s Green Belt. Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Air Quality There are no AQMA’s. There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside The impacts of climate change area expected to result  Be aware of air quality issues Management Areas Areas in South Tyneside. Council, DEFRA increased flood risk due to increased precipitation and sea within the borough. Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors, Sustainability and Energy level rise. Furthermore, increase wind speeds and climate change risks? temperatures may also pose a risk to buildings and infrastructure. Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the Boldon & Cleadon character area include: South Tyneside Council Key infrastructure assets in this character area include the  Be aware of the key assets and Assets  Boldon Cinema Boldon Colliery district shopping centre,including functions of the character area.  Key employment sites: Quadras & Boldon Business Park, Cleadon Lane Industrial Park cinema/restaurants, and key employment sites at Boldon  Seek to retain and improve all Transport The Boldon & Cleadon character area is served by: Business Park and Cleadon Lane Industrial Estate. There are forms of transport provision in Infrastructure  1 metro station  Bus network  Bridle paths 2 metro stations, bus network, cycle routes and bridlepaths, this character area.  A19, A184, A1018  Cycle route and specific road infrastructure improvement requirements  Provide adequate green Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Green Belt & Green Infrastructure at the A19 Testos roundabout, B1298 Abingdon Way, A1018 infrastructure provision to meet Allotment Provision Ha Plots There are 23 Council owned allotment Shields Road/Sunderland Road and at the A184 Front the requirements of this Street/Sunderland Road/B1299 Station Road junction. Holder House 4.17 230 sites in South Tyneside. This provides character area.  Seek to retain and where Dipe Lane 0.19 12 1347 plots. The area benefits from a range of ‘district’ ‘Neighbourhood’ possible enhance allotment sites East View 5.17 170 ‘local’ open space sites. There are opportunities for access in this area. Hedworth Lane 1.78 74 improvements along existing/proposed  Improve the quality of all Gladstone Terrace 2.33 81 footpaths/cycleways, there is a shortfall in allotment children’s play provision to a Character Area Total 13.6 567 provision and children’s and young people provision in parts ‘good’ standard. Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum of Boldon and Cleadon. The area has a significant amount of Play Provision Grange Park Fair Good Good 73% ‘good green infrastructure corridors surrounding provided by the (2009) Dipe Lane Fair Fair Fair 57% standard’ Green Belt, as well as River Corridors associated with the Coulthard Park Good Good Good 77% target River Don tributaries. These corridors provide important Wells Street Fair Fair Good 57% separation between settlements, as well as providing access Watson Terrace Fair Fair Fair 50% to recreation and habitats for wildlife. In regards to Disco Field Fair Good Good 70% providing important separation between the villages, only a Mundles Lane Fair Fair Fair 43% part of the River Don valley that separates parts of West New Road Fair Good Good 73% Boldon with Boldon Colliery is not designated Green Belt. New Road Good Fair Good 73% Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan World Heritage Sites There are no World Heritage sites or 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council There are 41 Listed Buildings in the Boldon and Cleadon  The Boldon and Cleadon & Scheduled Ancient Scheduled Ancient Monuments. 1 x candidate World Heritage Site character area, including St. Nicholas Church (Grade I) and character area is important to Monument 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments Cleadon House and West Boldon Hall (Grade II*). The the historical value of the Conservation Areas There are 4 conservation areas: There are 11 conservation areas in character area also includes 4 Conservation Areas, as well as borough. The Local Plan should 26

 Cleadon  East Boldon South Tyneside. a range of Listed and Locally Listed Buildings, and East continue to preserve and  Cleadon Hills  West Boldon Boldon library. enhance heritage assets within Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South the character area. Open Spaces Tyneside  Retain and if possible improve Listed Buildings There are 46 Listed Buildings. There are 244 Listed Buildings in South cultural provision in this Tyneside. character area. Listed Buildings at There is 1 listed building at risk: Tomb 22m There are 10 listed buildings at risk in Risk south of the south porch of the Church of St South Tyneside. Nicholas Locally Listed Heritage There are 49 Locally Listed Heritage Assets in There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage Assets the Boldon and Cleadon character area. Assets in South Tyneside. Museums There are no museums in the Boldon and There are 3 museums and 8 libraries in Cleadon character area. South Tyneside. Libraries There is 1library in the Boldon and Cleadon character area. East Boldon Library Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Levels of Cleadon & East Boldon 2.7% South Tyneside: 6.6% Office of National Cleadon and East Boldon ward has the lowest levels of  Consider allocating additional unemployment (2011) Boldon Colliery 5.8% Statistics unemployment in the borough. employment sites in strong Character Area Average 4.3% market locations. Employment Land in 50.7ha - Predominantly Industrial Area Total job potential = circa 590 South Tyneside Council Boldon district shopping centre has only 1 unit (3%) vacant  Retain and where possible character area 1.9ha - vacant employment land jobs demonstrating the areas popularity. increase levels of employment in 0.75 – employment expansion land this character area. 3,900sqm – vacant office floorspace The main employment areas in this character area are  Ensure that the education needs 6,500sqm – vacant industrial/warehouse floorspace Boldon Business Park, Boldon Colliery district shopping of the character area are Identified Retail Areas Boldon Colliery District Centre is the main South Tyneside: Town Centres: 3 centre and Cleadon Lane Industrial Estate. These areas adequately provided for. retail provision in this character area. District Centres: 6 contain a range of vacant employment units/sites. The Retail Provision (2012) Number of Retail Units Total Net Retail Total Vacant South Tyneside Employment Land Review 2011 identifies Boldon Business Park as a strong market location for Floorspace (m²) Units % employment generation. The review recommends the de- Boldon Colliery 33 11,921.1 1 3 allocation of sites where market demand is weak, and Borough Total 1430 155,055.7 181 12.7 additional employment land allocations should be directed Number of schools in Boldon and Cleadon South Tyneside to those areas of strong demand. Employment Land character area Secondary 1 9 Monitoring (August 2013) identifies that there is limited Primary 4 45 available employment land/premises in this character area Other 2 8 and only potential for circa 590 jobs. GCSE Achievement (5 Cleadon & East Boldon 80.2% Character Area South Tyneside Department for GCSE’s A*-C) Average: 72.4% Average: 54.4% Education (2014) Boldon Colliery 64.6% People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Population (2010) Character Area: 17,625 South Tyneside : 148671 Public Health England The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA 2013)  Ensure facilities meet the needs Ethnicity (2011) Cleadon & E. Boldon Boldon Colliery South Tyneside Office of National identifies that the ‘urban fringe’ area which comprises this of the population. White % Statistics character area has the highest average house prices in South  Seek to reduce all forms of British 95.2 96.6 95.1 Tyneside, and there is an imbalance between supply and deprivation in this character area. Irish 0.3 0.1 0.2 demand with a need for more market housing such as  Ensure that house prices remain Gypsy /Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0 0.0 apartments and bungalows. There is a significant shortfall affordable in this area whilst Other 0.6 0.6 0.7 for affordable housing, with 1 and 2-bedroom properties providing for adequate housing Mixed % required the most. All forms of deprivation are below the 27

White & Black Caribbean 0.1 0.1 0.2 borough and national average, and this character area is the needs. White & Black African 0.1 0.1 0.2 least deprived in the borough. However, parts of Boldon White & Asian 0.3 0.1 0.3 Colliery are identified as being within the 20% most Other 0.1 0.1 0.2 deprived lower super output areas for overall deprivation. Asian/ Asian British % Indian 0.9 0.6 0.4 Pakistani 0.4 0.3 0.3 Bangladeshi 0.6 0.6 1.0 Chinese 0.4 0.3 0.2 Other 0.4 0.2 0.3 Black / Black British % African 0.1 0.1 0.2 Caribbean 0.0 0.0 0.0 Other 0.0 0.1 0.0 Other % Arab 0.2 0.1 0.4 Other 0.3 0.0 0.3 Age of Population Cleadon & East Boldon 48 Character Area South Tyneside: Office of National (2011) Boldon Colliery 42 Average: 45 42 Statistics Deprivation Character Area average South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England (2015) Income Deprivation 12.3 % 22.4 % 14.6% Child Poverty 14.9 % 28.2% 19.9% Older People 15.4 % 24.5 % 16.2% Average House Prices Character Area average: £211,176 South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council What are the key sustainability issues?  Continue to support healthy lifestyles and reduce deprivation, particularly in Boldon Colliery.  Promote more market housing, particularly executive properties, including apartments and bungalows, and 1 and 2-bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance Biodiversity and Historic assets where appropriate, including local landscape designations.  Retain and improve cultural heritage assets where appropriate.  Preserve the special and separate characters of Boldon Colliery, West Boldon, East Boldon and Cleadon.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding, particularly along the River Don tributaries.  Protect the overarching functions of the Green Belt, and consider its extension along the River Don corridor between West Boldon and Boldon Colliery.  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Improving transport links where appropriate, including improvements along the Strategic Trunk Network, and to existing / proposed cycleways / footpaths.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate, including maintaining corridors such as along the River Don tributaries, and providing new allotments and areas for children and young people where appropriate.

South Tyneside Local Plan Character Area Profile: Whitburn

Character area size: The Whitburn character area comprises the Whitburn and Marsden ward including residential areas of Whitburn and parts of Marsden. Employment in this area is 762ha limited, but with some provision such as at Marsden Quarry, and services within Whitburn. The areas main accessibility is provided by the A1018 Shields Road, the Population: 18,140 A183 Coast road, the bus network, and cycle and walking routes. The area includes a vast area of Green Belt, separating South Shields and Whitburn, but also the borough and Sunderland. There is also the majority of the borough’s ‘undeveloped coastline’, including parts of the ‘Northumbrian Coast Special Protection Area’, important for bird populations, and the ‘Durham Coast Special Area of Conservation’ for its outstanding example of cliff top grassland. The proposed Cleadon Hills and Coastal Local Landscape designations are also present.

Landscape Residential –Whitburn and Marsden villages provided the main residential area in this character area, they also provide associated community buildings and Character Study: schools. Whitburn village is centred on a historic core which includes a village green and buildings of architectural interest. townscape/ Open Space/ Agricultural land- The village green and Whitburn rifle ranges provide key areas of open space. To the north and west of the villages is an area of landscape qualities predominantly farmland. Mineral Extraction- Marsden quarry is situated on an elevated area of land to the north of Whitburn village. Coast- The southern section of South Tyneside coast line is situated in this character area. It consists of elevated cliffs, beach and wave-cut platforms. The coast is publicly accessible and includes Whitburn coastal park.

What is the policy context?

The Local Development Framework Core Strategy (2007) sets out that the spatial strategy for the borough. Policies relevant to this character area include:  Create a strong sense of place by strengthening the distinctive historic and cultural qualities and townscape of our towns and villages, and promote high quality design  Protect and enhance the openness of Green Belt  Preserve the special and separate characters of the urban fringe villages of Boldon Colliery, West Boldon, East Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn  Creating new priority habitats, particularly in the Cleadon Hills Habitat Creation Zone  Secure and enhance the integrity of designated sites  Conserving and enhancing the character of the Undeveloped Coast as a high quality natural environment and resource for biodiversity and outdoor recreation  Reducing the risk of flooding and coastal erosion along the undeveloped coast, especially at the A183 near Marsden Lime Kilns and Old Harbour Quarry, Whitburn  Controlling new development to minimise adverse impacts on the Magnesian Limestone Aquifer and its associated groundwater protection zones  Mineral resources will be safeguarded against sterilisation through the designation of a Mineral Safeguarding Area Conservation Area Management Plan (SPD 12) for the Whitburn Conservation Area, sets out the guidelines for the management and protection of the historic assets in this area. What is the baseline situation? Biodiversity: Flora & Fauna SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan European Sites Northumbrian Coast SPA & Ramsar Site N/A JNCC There is the Northumbrian Coast SPA & Ramsar Site, the  The biodiversity assets in the Number of SSSI’s and Durham Coast SAC There are 5 SSSI’s in South Tyneside. Natural England Durham Coast Special Area of Conservation, and the Whitburn character area is an Area (ha) Durham Coast Total area: 158.8 ha Durham Coast SSSI (recorded in a ‘favourable’ condition) in important asset to the borough. Condition of SSSI’s Durham Coast : Favourable 96% favourable condition in South this character area. There are also 2 Local Nature Reserves The Local Plan should seek to Tyneside and 9 Local Wildlife Sites. protect and enhance these Local Nature Reserves Marsden Old Quarry There are 7 Local Nature Reserves in South Tyneside Council assets. Whitburn Point South Tyneside Number and Area (ha) 1.Beacon Hill Quarry (1.1 ha) There are 52 Local Wildlife Sites in of Local Wildlife Sites 2. Kitchener Road (0.6 ha) South Tyneside 3. Lizard Lane Cutting (0.2 ha) 4. Marsden Limekilns (6.3 ha) 5. Marsden Old Quarry (19.3 ha)

6. Marsden Quarry (1.5 ha) 7. The Leas (85.3 ha) 8. Whitburn Firing Range (37.4 ha) 9. Whitburn Point (3.9 ha) Total area of LWS in Character Area: 281 ha Human Health SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan M F South Tyneside: : M 77.2 F 81.7 JNSA 2012 Both male and female life expectancy exceeds the borough’s  Maintain life expectancy levels Life Expectancy Whitburn & Marsden 77.8 85.3 average. Levels of childhood obesity, adult obesity and and ensure needs of older Obese Children Reception Year (4 -5 yrs) : 10.3% South Tyneside: 10.9% Public Health England binge drinking are below the borough average in this people are provided for in this Year 6 (10-11 yrs): 22.1% South Tyneside: 22.9% (2016) character area. Levels of healthy eating are above the character area. Obese Adults Whitburn: 25.7% South Tyneside: 27.4% http://www.localheal borough average.  Seek to promote and encourage Binge drinking adults Whitburn: 25.7% South Tyneside: 28.7% th.org.uk opportunities for healthy

Healthy eating adults Whitburn 21.8% South Tyneside: 19.8% lifestyle choices . Natural Assets SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Area (ha) Whitburn: 762ha South Tyneside area: 6,443ha South Tyneside The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) (2010) identifies  The Local Plan should seek to Flood Risk Zones Coast: Flood Risk Zone 3 along the coastline Council that there are a range of flooding issues in the Whitburn protect the Magnesian Critical Drainage Areas No CDA’s character area, including Flood Risk Zone 3 along the Limestone Aquifer. Historic Flood Risk No recorded incidents 152 Flood Risk incidents in South coastline. There is also areas vulnerability to surface water  Continue to protect geodiversity Tyneside. flooding, with notable parts to the west of Whitburn. There sites in this area Geodiversity Sites There is 1 geodiversity site in the Whitburn There are 6 geodiversity sites in South have been no historic flood events reported.  The Local Plan should seek to

character area: Marsden Limekilns (2.0 ha) Tyneside – Total Ha: 36.8 ha protect the functions Green There is 1 geodiversity site at Marsden Limekilns. There are Belt. Green Belt Character area Green Belt: 539 ha South Tyneside: 2,408 (ha) also Coastal Limestone Plateau, Clay Plateau, and Limestone Landscape Local Development Framework: Limestone Landscapes Coast designations identified by the Limestone Landscape  The Local Plan should consider Designations  Cleadon Hills Partnership Partnership, and Local Landscape designations at Cleadon any existing and proposed Landscape Character Study: South Tyneside Council Hills and the Coast as identified in the South Tyneside landscape designations in this  Cleadon Hills  Coast Landscape Character Study (2012). area. Limestone Landscape Designations:  Coastal Limestone Plateau  Limestone Coast  Clay Plateau Air and Climatic Factors SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Air Quality There are no AQMA’s. There are 2 Air Quality Management South Tyneside The impacts of climate change are expected to result in  Be aware of air quality issues Management Areas Areas in South Tyneside. Council, DEFRA increased flood risk and coastal erosion due to increased within the borough. Any known predicted See Baseline Information Topic- Climatic Factors and energy precipitation and sea level rise. Furthermore, increased  Consider potential climate climate change risks? wind speeds and temperatures may also pose a risk to change risks and deliver buildings and infrastructure. There is a Coastal Change relevant adaptations and Management Area designated along the coast to manage mitigation measures. potential impacts associated with Climate Change. Material Assets and Infrastructure SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Key Infrastructure Key Infrastructure assets within the character area include: South Tyneside Key infrastructure assets in this character area include  Be aware of the key assets and Assets  Marsden Quarry  Whitburn Local Centre Council Marsden Quarry that provides aggregates for the functions of the character area.  Sunderland Academy of Light construction industry, as well as agricultural lime; The  Seek to retain and improve all Transport The Whitburn character area is served by: Sunderland Academy of Light, which is the training facility forms of transport provision in

Infrastructure  A183, A1018  Cycle route  Bridle paths  Bus network for Sunderland Football Club, and Whitburn Local Centre, this character area and facilitate which provide a variety of services to the surrounding area. highway improvements. Green Infrastructure See Baseline Information Topic- Land Use & Green Infrastructure Accessibility is provided by the bus network, cycle routes  Seek to provide adequate green Allotment Provision Ha Plots There are 23 Council owned allotment and bridle paths, and the A183 Coast Road, and the A1018 infrastructure provision to meet Arthur Street 1.14 31 sites in South Tyneside. This provides Shields Road. These roads require investment, and land is the requirements of this specifically safeguarded to allow for any future need to Highcroft Allotments 0.76 32 1347 plots. character area. realign the Coast Road.  Retain and where possible Orchard Gardens 1.19 n/a enhance allotment sites in this Marine Terrace 0.76 24 The area benefits from the Leas ‘district park and open area. Myrtle Avenue 0.08 16 space’ site, as well as various ‘local’ sites. Whilst there are  Encourage the retention of Ash Grove 0.07 5 opportunities for access improvements along ‘good standards across Character Area Total 4 84 existing/proposed footpaths/cycleways, there is a shortfall children’s play facilities in the in children’s and young people provision. There is good Quality of Children’s Condition Play Value Location Score Minimum Whitburn character area. accessibility to allotments in Whitburn, but a shortfall in Play Provision Cornthwaite Park Good Fair Good 63% ‘good (2009) standard’ Marsden. Cornthwaite Park Good Good Fair 73% target Cornerstone Park Good Good Fair 73% Cultural Heritage and Cultural Facilities SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan World Heritage Sites & 1 x Scheduled Ancient Monuments: 1 x World Heritage Site South Tyneside Council This character area has 1 Grade II*, Souter Lighthouse and  The Whitburn character area is Scheduled Ancient Marsden Lime Kilns 1 x candidate World Heritage Site the Marsden Lime Kilns Scheduled Ancient Monument. The important to the historical value Monument 4x Scheduled Ancient Monuments character area includes the Whitburn Conservation Area, as of the borough. The Local Plan Conservation Areas Whitburn Conservation Area is in the There are 11 conservation areas in well as a range of Listed and Locally Listed Buildings, and should continue to preserve and Whitburn character area South Tyneside. Whitburn library. enhance heritage assets within Registered Parks and No registered park or open spaces. There is 1 registered park in South the character area. Open Spaces Tyneside  Reduce the number of buildings Listed Buildings There are 31 Listed Buildings in the There are 244 Listed Buildings in South at risk Whitburn Character area. Tyneside.  Retain and if possible improve Listed Buildings at Risk There are 3 listed buildings at risk in the There are 10 listed buildings at risk in cultural provision in this Whitburn character area: South Tyneside. character area.  Wall to North of 47 Front Street  Steps, walls and piers to south of 44 Front Street  Gates, gate piers, steps and garden ornaments to south west of 18 The Lawns Locally Listed Heritage There are 35 Locally Listed Heritage Assets in There are 194 Locally Listed Heritage Assets the Whitburn character area. Assets in South Tyneside. Museums There are no museums. There are 3 museums and 8 libraries in Libraries There is 1 library in the Whitburn character South Tyneside. area: Whitburn Library Economic Development, Employment and Education SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Levels of Whitburn 4.7 %% South Tyneside: 6.6% Office of National Levels of unemployment are considerably below the  Retain and where possible unemployment (2011) Statistics borough average. increase levels of employment Employment Land in There is no predominantly industrial area in this character area and no employment land South Tyneside Council in this character area. There is no predominantly industrial land or designated character area allocations.  There are no identified retail employment allocations. Annual Monitoring Report - Retail Identified Retail Areas There are no identified retail areas. South Tyneside: Town Centres: 3 areas within the Whitburn Health and Floorspace (April 2012) identifies there are 4 District Centres: 6 character area. However, the retail units vacant (14%) in Whitburn demonstrating the Retail Provision (2012) No data Local Plan should seek to 31

Number of schools in Whitburn South Tyneside areas popularity. support existing retail provision character area Secondary 1 9 within this area. The South Tyneside Employment Land Review 2011 does Primary 2 45  Ensure that the education needs not identify any employment zones within this character Other 0 8 of the character area are area, and does not indicate that it is a strong location for GCSE Achievement (5 Department for adequately provided for. Whitburn & Marsden: 60.3% South Tyneside: 54.4% new allocations. GCSE’s A*-C) Education People & Social Equity SA Issue Baseline Information Comparator or target Source Comment Implications for Local Plan Population (2015): Character Area 7,352 South Tyneside:148671 Public Health England The population of the Whitburn character area is older than  Ensure facilities meet the needs Ethnicity (2011) Whitburn South Tyneside Office of National the borough average. of the population. White % Statistics  Seek to reduce all forms of Income deprivation and child poverty levels are below the British 97.2 95.1 deprivation in this character borough average, but there is a higher prevalence of older Irish 0.1 0.2 area. person deprivation in the Whitburn area. However, parts of Gypsy /Irish Traveller 0.0 0.0  Ensure that house prices remain Marsden are identified as being within the 20% most Other 0.6 0.7 affordable in this area whilst deprived lower super output areas for overall deprivation. Mixed % providing for adequate housing

White & Black Caribbean 0.1 0.2 The Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA 2013) needs. White & Black African 0.1 0.2 identifies that the ‘Urban Fringe’ area which comprises the White & Asian 0.3 0.3 majority of this character area has the highest average Other 0.2 0.2 house prices in South Tyneside; however the ‘South Shields Asian/ Asian British % East’ area which includes Marsden has a lower average Indian 0.3 0.4 house price. There is an imbalance between supply and Pakistani 0.2 0.3 demand with a need for more market housing, particularly Bangladeshi 0.2 1.0 executive housing, such as flats/apartments/maisonettes Chinese 0.0 0.2 and bungalows. For the remaining parts of Marsden within Other 0.2 0.3 this character area, there is a marked need for more market Black / Black British % detached and flat/apartments/maisonettes. There is a African 0.0 0.2 significant shortfall for affordable housing, with 1 and 2- Caribbean 0.0 0.0 bedroom properties most required in the character area. Other 0.0 0.0

Other % Arab 0.4 0.4 Other 0.0 0.3 Age of Population Whitburn and Marsden(2011): 46 South Tyneside (2011): 42 Deprivation Whitburn and Marsden (2015) South Tyneside (2015) England (2015) Public Health England Income Deprivation 17.6% 22.4 % 14.6% (2016) Child Poverty 17.9% 28.2% 19.9% http://www.localheal Older People 22.9% 24.5 % 16.2% th.org.uk Average House Prices Character Area average: £217,858 (Nov South Tyneside: £140,937 South Tyneside Council 2017) What are the key sustainability issues?  Support healthy lifestyles and reduce deprivation, particularly in Marsden.  Promote more market housing, particularly executive properties, including detached, flats/apartments/maisonettes and bungalows, and 1 and 2-bedroom affordable homes, to balance supply and demand.  Protect and enhance Biodiversity and Historic assets where appropriate, including local landscape designations and the Magnesian Limestone Aquifer.  Protect and reduce the potential for flooding and coastal erosion.  Protect the overarching functions of the Green Belt and the special and separate characters of Whitburn.  Protecting, enhancing and supporting existing/future employment sectors where appropriate and increasing levels of employment and income for residents in this area.  Supporting the Coastal Change Management Area

 Improving transport links where appropriate, including improvements to existing/ proposed cycleways/ footpaths, as well as road infrastructure.  Safeguarding and improving the quantity and quality of green infrastructure provision where appropriate  Safeguarding mineral resources against sterilisation, particularly in the Marsden Quarry area subject to any future extraction requirements.