Regeneration Round Table, Heritage Conservation, Project Updates
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issue four: autumn 2008 newcastle’s regeneration magazine Inside: Regeneration round table, inside:inside: Retail Retail heritage conservation, TransportTransport project updates... OuseburnOuseburn WestWest End End GallowgateGallowgate andand much much more… more… Image by Ryder Architecture Denton Park opens in summer 2009. This substantial redevelopment of a run down 1970s district shopping centre, being undertaken by Morrisons and Rokeby, will provide a new community focus for West Denton and includes a new Morrisons store, a replacement health centre and shop units, together with improvements to an adjoining school and social club. newcastle’s regeneration magazine issue four: autumn 2008 21 11 30 `jjl\]fli1 05 News EditoR Sarah Herbert Xlklde)''/ CovER iMagE [email protected] e\nZXjkc\Ëji\^\e\iXk`fedX^Xq`e\ Northumberland Catch up on the latest University regeneration news from Newcastle deputy EditoR Kirsty MacAulay [email protected] feature wRiter Alex Aspinall 08 Markets `jjl\]fli1Xlklde)''/ [email protected] Building a new newcastle’s regeneration magazine The low-down on the economic generation of homes aRt EditoR Terry Hawes Yuill Homes has a track record of delivering award-winning partnership schemes across the North East. Imaginative master planning and practical solutions have led to established successful communities combining residential, commercial and community developments. @ej`[\1I\^\e\iXk`feifle[kXYc\# `ej`[\1 _\i`kX^\Zfej\imXk`fe# situation, residential, retail, office [email protected] For more information call 01429 266620 gifa\Zklg[Xk\j%%% or visit www.yuillhomes.co.uk and leisure sectors PRoduCtioN MaNager Rachael Schofield [email protected] 11 Round table advertisement salEs Paul Gussar PublishEd by Leading lights in Newcastle’s [email protected] development discuss the city’s office MaNager Sue Mapara 189 Lavender Hill London SW11 5TB future [email protected] T: 020 7978 6840 F: 020 7978 6837 MaNagiNg directoR Toby Fox [email protected] FoR NEwCastlE City CouNCil 21 Case study PRiNtEd by Tradewinds The reinvigoration of one of the ImagEs Urban Initiatives, Newcastle City Paul Goodwin, sector development officer city’s historic buildings Council, Steve Brock, Gateshead Council [email protected] subsCRiPtioNs aNd FEEdbaCk 25 Funding www.renaissancenewcastle.com The financial initiatives behind public sector schemes explained subsCRiPtioNs aNd FEEdbaCk www.renaissancenewcastle.com 30 Projects © 3Fox International Limited 2008 All material is strictly copyright and all rights are reserved. Reproduction in What is happening with the city’s whole or in part without the written permission of 3Fox International Limited is strictly forbidden. The greatest care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information in this magazine at time of going to press, but we accept no major developments responsibility for omissions or errors. The views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of 3Fox 25 International Limited or Newcastle City Council. 03 Welcome to Newcastle Newcastle is enjoying unprecedented levels of growth and investment. High profile schemes such as Science City, the Discovery Quarter, Newcastle Great Park and Ouseburn Valley are shaping the economic profile of a fast developing and vibrant European City. In the city centre the £170 million redevelopment of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre, is now in its second phase whilst a major retail led mixed use regeneration scheme covering a 33 acre area around East Pilgrim Street is set to become a distinctive new quarter of the City. For further information go to www.renaissancenewcastle.com 0 round-up: What’s new, hot and happening in Newcastle’s regeneration programme Charlie Falconer, chair of the new City Development Company. ian StratforD, chief executive, Newcastle City Council says: we know, tHRouGH mAny years of partnership work, how the private sector has the right skills to drive forward the local economy. that’s why we’re taking the bold step of forming the new private-sector led cdc. it adds to my confidence about the city, and to why i’m not predicting credit crunch doom. newcastle is well placed to buck the trend. we have the cranes, Bridging the city the constantly evolving skyline, the cultural renaissance, the A new city development compAny is set on this partnership. it’s a challenge, but i’m sure explosion in hotel provision, and to transform newcastle and Gateshead, via a we can produce results.” the growth of our professional strategic programme of economic and physical John Rundle, on secondment from government services sector, especially around development overseeing the whole metropolitan office one north east, is heading the team setting the quayside. area. newcastleGateshead cdc, backed by up the new company. He’s confident that the cdc But most of all we have Gateshead council, newcastle city council and is the right vehicle to drive forward the pace huge city centre sites left for one northeast, will be an independent business- and quality of economic growth on tyneside. development, and an array of led body responsible for economic master “this cdc will be the first in the country commercially attractive, and planning, coordinating and delivering strategic operating across two local authority areas,” solidly backed, investment economic and regeneration projects, targeting he says. “Rather than adding another layer to propositions, the two combining investment and winning new business. government, we are streamlining our approach together in, for example, the 8ha Former housing minister and lord chancellor to smooth the path for investors, developers city centre science central site charlie Falconer will chair the organisation. and businesses, establishing single points of around the old newcastle Brown “Gateshead and newcastle have both come so contact and keeping red tape to a minimum. our brewery site (see p32). far over the past 10 years,” said Falconer. “you objective is to make newcastle and Gateshead we have a lower debt-to- can see it with your own eyes and there are a more attractive place for both long-term income ratio than the credit- great developments in prospect. i really want to investment and economic growth. the best way stretched south east, and shifts achieve something for Gateshead and newcastle. to achieve this is by combining our strengths and in house prices will – with less they are committed to working together and the resources and focusing our ideas and efforts on a far to fall – have a smaller effect. cdc can deliver real progress for the area based common goal.” our quality retail market space is more than holding its own, and the office market is steady if not DaviD Slater the regional economy, and will challenge and huge opportunity buoyant. newcastle city council greatly boost how the city and to make this fantastic city an newcastle is a city driving director of environment and the region are perceived in the even greater place to live, work forward without compromise regeneration, who joined in wider world. and visit. I love it, as I know and demanding the best. so, spring 2008, comments: as physical developments others do, and if you have ambitions for to eNsure all developmeNt have a very long lifecycle, we am looking quality, lasting investments and benefits the city, we have to be have to continue to take a long- forward developments – and if you want clear what our priorities are, so term view, and not become too to making an environment to do business in we can have a shared view on tied up with short-term changes our – come and have a fresh look at what’s possible, the timescale, in the economy which, while real dreams a newcastle. order, and at what cost. and happening, shouldn’t derail reality. success will have a huge our long-term plans. effect on both residents and all this presents both a huge 0 round-up continued LocaL heroes local archItect practIce mosedale GIllatt WIped the board at the lord mayor’s design awards for 2007, winning four of the six categories. mGa, set up in 1995, won the special regeneration award for two projects, Woods pottery and Northern print (above), both in ouseburn, which also won individual awards in the conservation/refurbishment category and small-scale category. the practice’s Grosvenor court project in Jesmond also won the housing award. mGa director Jenny Gillatt is delighted. “to be recognised for our contribution to the city’s regeneration is a great achievement for us,” she says, “and a further reinforcement of our continued work and expertise in this area.” another local company to be recognised for its regeneration efforts is silverlink, whose trinity Gardens scheme on the Quayside (right) won the civic trust award. the scheme was praised as ‘a good example of the creative regeneration of an underused and overgrown site. easy pedestrian access has increased footfall through the area, bringing new life and an increased feeling of security’. the mixed-use project, completed in 2005, has been credited with improving the bankside, with new seating and access routes. the artwork at the centre of the public realm won the 2006 marsh award for public sculpture. 0 PedaL Power Under the arches IN a bId to eNcouraGe GreeN plaNs For the reFurbIshmeNt oF travel the council has installed 45 new the railway arches on Forth street bike racks across the city and invested will transform the area to the south £272,000 in cycle routes, with a mix of central station. Network rail’s of off-road paths and dedicated cycle property division spacia hopes to lanes. New maps detailing city cycle put new glass fronts on the units, routes and bike racks, alongside a which range in size from 27sq m to magazine ‘Get cycling in Newcastle’, 123sq m, hopefully attracting cafés, will also encourage people to leave art shops and architects offices to the their cars at home and get on their area.