First look at how Steel House could be redeveloped in plans for former HQ
The imposing building will be redeveloped with new cladding and windows to provide office space and support services
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Steel House at Redcar s former steelworks site could be completely transformed as part of major redevelopment work.
First pictures of how the imposing building could look have been released by the Tees Valley Combined Authority.
Thames Freeport bid could generate 25,000 jobs and boost economy in wake of Brexit
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Updated: 14:56, 12 February 2021
A plan to build a new port on the Thames estuary could generate thousands of jobs for people in Kent, according to the team behind the project.
Thames Freeport has this week submitted a bid to build a hub of industry in the estuary, following the governmentâs plan to establish 10 free ports to turbo-charge trading in the post-Brexit economy.
Self-proclaimed âBritainâs trading future,â the project is spearheaded by DP World and Fourth Ports, who hope to convince the government to grant them permission to build a free port incorporating Tilbury Docks, near the Dartford Crossing, as well as London Gateway.
By Rachel Conner-Hill echorachelc Chief Reporter (Tees Valley & North Yorkshire)
The Teeswork Heritage Taskforce has recommended dismantling the blast furnace on the former SSI steelworks site in Redcar A HERITAGE taskforce is recommending Redcar’s iconic blast furnace should be dismantled – but say they will continue to look at how it can preserve other structures. The Teesworks Heritage Taskforce has completed its report looking at how to preserve Teesside’s history of iron and steelmaking on the former SSI site in Redcar. It was set up in September by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen as part of wider plans to regenerate the site following the closure of the steelworks in 2015.
Taskforce recommends that Redcar s iconic blast furnace site should be dismantled
The independent group say the structure should be pulled down to make way for regeneration, but campaigners say they ll continue to oppose
18:53, 15 JAN 2021
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An independent taskforce has recommended that Redcar s iconic blast furnace should be dismantled.
The heritage taskforce, set up by Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, has concluded that the structure - which has overlooked Redcar since the late 1970s - should be pulled apart with any “materials and artefacts of industrial architecture being salvaged for memorials or displays .
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The Government has opened a bidding process for the creation of up to 10 new freeports, promising they are a simple way to “turbo-charge” the economy, especially in deprived areas. The country has had freeports before, but those – established in the Eighties and Nineties in ports like Liverpool and Tilbury – eventually withered and died. All they could offer was freedom from customs duties, and this was not enough on its own, as more or less the same benefits could be gained by importers