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Anger over 30m blank wall on Middlesbrough shopping street
THE PLANNING process in Middlesbrough is being questioned by a local councillor after a blank wall was built as part of a development on a busy shopping street.
Park Ward councillor Joe Michna hopes that something can still be done to improve the appearance of the brick wall at ground- floor level of the student accommodation development built on the former Kwik Save site.
Cllr Michna has asked the council’s planning department how the 32-yard - almost 30m - stretch of wall was allowed.
He said: “As this building was being constructed I passed it twice a day and I could not quite believe that the developers would, as part of this development leave a stretch of pure brick wall measuring 32 yards on our major ‘High Street’, which Linthorpe Road is.
“Linthorpe Road is not only our ‘High Street’ but a vibrant and diverse part of our local economy with a variety of retail outlets, restaurants, pubs and other commercial businesses.
“Linthorpe Road is the main artery of the town and should be protected from any development that detracts or harms its commercial and retail potential. This wall adds nothing to Linthorpe Road and is not in keeping with what we expect our ‘High Street’ to look like. I am amazed council planning bosses allowed it and I hope it is not too late to do something about it.”
A Middlesbrough Council spokesman said: “The length of frontage between Units 4 and 5 is taken up, in the approved layout, by on-site parking spaces for customers to the intended shop units, with the resulting external façade consequently comprising the pedestrian entrance to the car park and a brick wall screen, which at present is blank and relatively uninteresting.
“Throughout the planning process, this potential length of relatively “dead” frontage to the ground floor car park on this part of the proposed elevational treatment was considered to be short on visual interest and, as such, visual relief was to be provided by two advertisement panels, each 12m in length, that were to have provided moving images to relieve this area.
“Unfortunately, with the current construction almost entirely concentrated on the student accommodation on the upper floors, the current economic situation has not encouraged either the retail or advertisement elements on the ground floor to be brought forward.”
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pearljam
4:48 PM on January 9, 2012
At least the brick wall is clean and tidy unlike the majority of businesses along the length of Linthorpe Road, far from being vibrant, Linthorpe Road on the whole is a disgrace, filthy, scruffy, and absolutely saturated with fast food outlets.
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