Giant stride for eco park
PLANS FOR a South Tees eco park, which will bring 20 firms and 500 jobs in the renewables and recycling sectors, took a major step forward this week.
Law firm Ward Hadaway, advisors to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council on funding agreements to transform the 53-acre former steelworks site, said the first £2m had been signed off for highway improvements from One NorthEast.
Andrea Proudlock, who has been leading the Ward Hadaway team, said the project was good news for both the ecology and economy on Teesside. She said: “Hopefully, with the first of these agreements now in place, work can begin in earnest.”
Work on developing the site - a partnership project between Redcar and Cleveland Council, Renew Tees Valley and Tees Valley Regeneration - is expected to begin in 2009. Council leader, George Dunning, said it was “great news for the local economy of South Bank and Grangetown and the Tees Valley area in general”.
Chief executive of Tees Valley Regeneration, Joe Docherty, said: “This is an incredibly exciting project with enormous opportunities for new, high-tech recycling industries to locate in a first class, purpose-built environment.”
