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Hi Tom, yes there is more work to this but not sharing at the moment as seeking research funding.

New address, but hasn't been mapped with search engines (yet)

somethingconcrete.co.uk

What a waste of a site

As for Gateshead, they currently have the 'Exemplar Neighbourhood' project on site. Again, 2 car parking spaces per home whilst being 7-10 minutes walk to the nearby Metro station.

Don't get me started on the former Heaton Goods Yard (Heaton Quarter), it's an abomination of a development. And pretty much everything that's wrong with land use planning. 2.5 cars per household next to the Metro station?!?!

Thanks for sharing - indeed, vote Metroland - form.jotform.com/250892443342...

Amazing. US has such a messy relationship with public transport.

The best example I've found has been the Hong Kong transport network (MTR) which buys up land around stations and develops it for housing. TfL have started to do similar on a small scale.

Thanks for the kind words. Yep, basically what every sensible municipality and city has been doing/is doing in Europe (and that London).

What a sensible country would do..! Love it, voted, best of luck.

I think it's a good idea. No idea if the judging panel will.

Given that we now have a combined authority that spans the Metros area, it presents the first time as a region we could have a strategic spatial plan for housing delivery since the Tyne and Wear County Council was disbanded in 1986.

It's about connecting housing delivery with existing infrastructure to reduce the lifetime operational carbon. I've bored most people to death about the idea by now, so it just feels like the obvious alternative to the current housing model which is all about car-orientated peripheral housing.