Bulldozing Stockton High Street

TheFair86 said:
I like it too. It can’t go on, they’ve tried to revitalise the high street and it worked to make it look better but the financial la scale of the high street is out of the councils control. Less space is needed and what is left needs to look nice and be functional

People get on the councils back for knocking down old buildings and then for trying to bring derelict old buildings back into use, so they can’t win. Not just stockton though, thornaby the same with the golden eagle and npower office

Going back to middlesbrough can anyone remember the old swimming baths next to the bus station? It’s where captain cook square is now and captain cool square itself was a massive improvement for the town at the time rather than a derelict old building. People get too attached to the last imo, it’s great if older buildings can be brought back into use but if they can’t they fall into disrepair and are unsightly. Globe is showing how much that costs - cheaper to knock it down and build new but believe it was protected?
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Gilkes St baths. It even had 'slipper baths' for people without a bath at home.
 
Decent_Left said:
Didnt Boston in the USA do something like this to try to reconnect the City to the Harbour/River. Sure I saw a documentary called the Big Dig.
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The Big Dig had a mammoth cost overrun, although it is very impressive - it replaced the old overhead expressway with an underground one..
 
Stockton Borough College are actually trying to make things happen. The proposals for Stockton High Street are brilliant I think. It's good the Council isn't just concentrating on the largest town. Billingham and Thornaby are being looked at too.

There's a really good opportunity for Billingham. The Town Centre has steady trade as the shops cater for everyday items. That's probably the same for Thornaby too.
 
fmttmadmin said:
The opposite bank is the same local authority and am surprised you are having a go at the office blocks that line the southern bank opposite the new park. Is that what you mean?
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I doubt they’ll win any design awards! I think more modern glass venues would be much more appealing.
 
Jonny Ingbar said:
Bit of an emotive headline, "bulldoze the high street", but the plans are very ambitious and I hope the council can make them happen.

On the other issue, i saw today that the top 15 headge fund mangers have earned around £1.5bn each last year. The gap between the richest and poorest in society is a vulgar embarrassment to the human race, something needs to change.
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an acceptance that free market economics is and will always lead to further wealth gaps, and acceptance of reasonable social policies as a good thing
 
Wiseman_Vaughn said:
The Castlegate Centre was the beginning of the end really. I hope this breathes new life into it
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Has anyone got any decent pics of the High Street prior to the Castlegate centre? or any of the streets that used to be there prior to it? It was built when I was in nappies (no not last week) so I have no recollection of anything but the Castlegate.
 
BoroMart said:
Has anyone got any decent pics of the High Street prior to the Castlegate centre? or any of the streets that used to be there prior to it? It was built when I was in nappies (no not last week) so I have no recollection of anything but the Castlegate.
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I haven't looked recently but on the picturestockton site there has been loads over the years.

I can't really remember it before Castlegate but if they had left it as it was, it would be something like a bigger version of Yarm
 
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