Staiths South Bank

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…

Wayne and his wife, Gerardine, complimented the existing professional team rather than replacing any part of it, although there was a change of Architect in order to provide a clean break from previous design studies. There remained a need for a team of housing development design professionals as the Hemingways were concept driven and did not claim to be able to provide detailed technical information which would still be required for regulatory approval and construction. The project team comprised; Hemingway Design IDP Partnership, Newcastle upon Tyne (Architects) Glen Kemp, Gateshead (Landscape Architects)- note that for the purposes of achieving the desired Homezone, Glen Kemp were given…