(18 May 2016, 12:24 pm)James101 wrote http://hartlepool.ccad.ac.uk/lynn-street-development/

The above webpage shows the development and the youtube clip shows the area marked 'bus depot' quickly replaced by the new CCAD. A piece of North East bus history has quietly already been demolished. The new development, in fairness, brings a lot of value to the town. It may just be a co-incidence but the CCAD development is ideally placed to spur gentrification around it. 

RE Steetly housing; I studied a Geography Bsc which provided some background on the processes around costal erosion. How on earth that development ever got the go ahead is beyond me. The issues that come from building on contaminated land are dwarfed by the prospect of your new home falling into the North Sea! Not that there was much prevention work done anyway, but costal protection is a constant process, there's simply no fix. There's been many instances, including on the Humber coast not far away, where the Environment Agency have ruled it's no longer cost effective to protect homes and they must be abandoned and left to fall into the sea. I would imagine those homes will not last as long as the mortgages on them.

Appreciate we are going well off topic here (will try and mention ghost bus infrastructure once or twice).

The depot itself was nowt flash. No old school nooks and crannies, like you would see in old depots. It was basically a tin shack, with a few offices dotted about.

The last time I was down the Lynn Street area in January and never noticed a thing with regard to demolition or redevelopment.

The CAD and purchasing council land/buildings is nothing new. They got the Church Street Buildings from the council and have obviously done the same here.

I totally agree about the potential for gentrification around that area.
As I say, the potential around there is massive.
The whole square between Church Street, across to Hucklehoven Way (maybe a little further), is ripe for improvement.