TOWN CENTREMiddleton Grange Shopping Centre dominates the Town Centre. The new owners are keen to invest in improvements to the Centre and to attract new retailers. There is potential for the redevelopment of part of the Centre to introduce new modern units.
Shop units facing on to Victory Square could also be opened up removing the blank wall and improving its external appearance. This would add activity to the Square whilst respecting its memorial status.
A key project is the relocation of leisure facilities from Mill House to the centre of Town adjacent to Middleton Grange (on the car park next to the Market Hall). This will create brand new facilities close to public transport and ample car parking and encourage linked trips to the shops which will help improve the Shopping Centre and attract retailers. It will also provide modern community and leisure facilities which will be more energy efficient and more cost effective to run.
Proposals would also seek to improve the physical shopping environment of York Road by removing guard rails along the Road and improving the public realm.
H A R T L E P O O L REGENERATION MASTERPLAN
Help Shape Hartlepool’s Regeneration Masterplan 5
1 IMPROVEMENTS TO MIDDLETON GRANGEImprovements to image and quality of
the Shopping Centre.
KEY LANDSCAPE FEATURES
KEY FRONTAGES
LANDMARKS
PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS
VEHICULAR ROUTES
KEY VIEWS
LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE
SAFE DISTANCE?
VICTORY TERRACE
LOCATION?
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LOCATION?
NATURAL SURVEILLANCE
VICTORY SQUARE, VICTORIA ROAD
OPEN FRONTAGES TO SQUARE
SITTING TERRACE
OPEN FRONTAGES TO SQUARE
OPTION A: OPTION B:
OPTION C:
KIOSK / MARKET ZONE
OPEN FRONTAGES TO SQUARE
5 IMPROVEMENTS TO VICTORY SQUARE FRONTAGESOpening up the frontages of Middleton
Grange surrounding Victory Square to improve the image of the Shopping Centre.
KEY LANDSCAPE FEATURES
KEY FRONTAGES
LANDMARKS
PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS
VEHICULAR ROUTES
KEY VIEWS
LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE
IMPROVE/DECLUTTER PUBLIC REALM
INCORPORATE FRONTAGE
CENTRAL LIBRARY
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3 IMPROVEMENTS TO YORK ROAD Removal of guard rails and street furniture to ‘de-clutter’ the footpaths.
2 NEW COMMUNITY AND LEISURE FACILITYComplementary relocation of leisure
facilities from Mill House to adjacent to Middleton Grange.
4 REDEVELOPMENT OF MILL HOUSEResidential redevelopment to fund new
Town Centre Community and Leisure Centre at Middleton Grange.
Church Street
Victoria Road
Park Road
Stockton Street
York Road
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