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Staiths South Bank
Staiths South Bank in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Staiths South Bank is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Staiths South Bank is a housing development in Gateshead, England, designed in collaboration with fashion designers Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway (known for their Red or Dead fashion label). It has been cited as an example of "more experimental" design for large housing developments and criticised for excluding cars in a site poorly served by public transport.
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Background
History
After a long period of industrial use throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, including development of a large gasworks for the production of town gas from coal, the site became disused. In order to regenerate the area, Gateshead Council included the site in the Gateshead Garden Festival, held between May and October 1990. Remediation for the purposes of the Garden Festival was restricted to regrading and capping in order to provide a suitable medium for planting. This included the use of earth mounding to cover the remaining buried structures, such as gasometer bases. Following the Garden Festival the site was sold to a subsidiary of the Sir Robert McAlpine civil engineering business. Part…
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- Coordinates
- 54.9575, -1.6281
Sources
- wikidata: Q7597127 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Staiths South Bank (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Staiths South Bank?
- Staiths South Bank is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9575°, -1.6281°.