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NEW WEAR BRIDGE PLANNING APPLICATION
03/02/2010
Press release issued by Sunderland City Council
PLANS to build a major new bridge and road network in Sunderland have moved to their next stages.
A planning application for the Sunderland Strategic Transport Corridor Phase 2 and landmark bridge over the River Wear between Pallion and Castletown was lodged in December 2009.
It has now been considered (Tuesday 2 February) by the City Council’s South and North development control (planning) committees.
They both agreed a recommendation that the application should be considered by the City Council’s Planning and Highways Committee.
In referring the recommendation, the committees noted how:
‘The scheme, which would create a landmark structure for the city, raises issues of more than local significance:
• It straddles the boundaries of two of the Development Control Sub Committees (North Sunderland and South Sunderland)
• It forms part of the City's future strategic road network with impacts on traffic movements and highway improvements well beyond either area
• It impacts on the regeneration of key development sites in the City (e.g. Vaux, Groves -Cole)
• It has the potential to generate new interest in the area and to boost tourism in the city.’
The application has been timetabled for determination by the Planning and Highways Committee on Thursday 29 April 2010.
ENDS
Editors notes:
The SSTC, including the bridge, will improve access between the A19 and the Port of Sunderland supporting regeneration such as the Groves, Vaux and Farringdon Row sites in the river corridor, and the city centre as a whole.
The bridge consists of two curving steel towers the smaller one being no higher than 140m and the taller (western) one no higher than 190m. This would make the tallest bridge in the country.
The deck surface is 16 to 20m above the River Wear.
It is proposed that a temporary bridge, from the south bank to the centre of the river, is constructed to enable construction of the central foundations and masts within the river bed.
Further details of the application, 09/04661/LAP, can be found in the Development Control pages of Planning in Sunderland in the Quick Links section of: www.sunderland.gov.uk
Subject to all necessary permissions, work on the bridge and its approach roads could start in 2012.
Image: Attached is an artist’s impression looking towards the bridge’s western and tallest mast.
Further information: Jeremy Wicking, Media Officer, Sunderland City Council, 0191 561 1137, Jeremy.wicking@sunderland.gov.uk
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