(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.

My parents' house is on the East Yorkshire coast. We've calculated that, at the current, rather rapid, rate of erosion around their village, they've got a good 100 years. Their house has been there 150, but I somehow don't think we'll be keeping it in the family (even though my mum worked out that it used to be a shop, run by one of her ancestors!)

And while 100 years sounds great, they're almost a mile inland. That's like losing half of Seaham, or Peterlee (very little of which is likely to still be standing in 100 years in its current form, anyhow) becoming a seaside town.