DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
The Green Blue Heart
The Green Blue Heart area comprised 250 hectares of land embracing both banks of the river. The site has few land ownerships and all owners are keen to see the river corridor continue to improve by building on its current assets such as two major wildlife habitats, by focusing on leisure development around the barrage and bringing forward the Marshalling Yard for development.
Eight projects are therefore being pursued by SMI.
A copy of the latest SMI PowerPoint presentation related to the Green Blue Heart is available for download from the Documents section of this website.
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| Barrage and White Water Course |
| The barrage is an interesting engineering structure developed by the Teesside Development Corporation and opened in 1995. |
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| Tees Marshalling Yard |
| The 53 hectare Tees Marshalling Yard is owned by Network Rail and EWS the freight rail operator. |
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| Maze Park |
Tees Valley Wildlife Trust own and manage Maze Park and more information about the significance of the site as a wildlife habitat is available on their site. |
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| South West Ironmasters |
| This land is owned by Middlesbrough Council and from July 2008 work begins on the provision of a major new access road to the whole of north Middlesbrough... |
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| Billingham Beck |
| This area contains deposits of ash from the former incinerator (see site 6) but has been contoured and landscaped as an informal recreational area... |
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| The Former Incinerator Site |
| This large site has a number of development restraints including the existence of ash deposits from the former incinerator itself... |
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| Portrack Marshes |
| This large site is part owned by the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust with the remainder owned by Northumbria Water but leased to the Trust... |
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| New Road Infrastructure |
| There is a small area of land adjacent to Marston Road which may in the future be significant in terms of potential linkages... |
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