Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Redhead's Landing
Redhead's Landing
Now that the election is over, it's time to start looking at some smaller more local issues again. This week one of the issues brought to attention on the South Shields Sanddancer's Message Board is Redhead's Landing. This "public landing" is situated in Commercial Road, South Shields and was for many years available as a public access to the River Tyne, a place where you could launch your boat or go fishing.Little is known about the current ownership of the land or the current rights of the public to access the river from this spot, but there is an assumption that it is still available for public use.
To it's right is McNulty Marine shipyard and to it's left another small boatbuilder's yard, however, a number of local lads have been trying to access the site recently and found the gates to be permanently sealed with large nuts and bolts enclosed in a steel housing. CLOSED!
When the Bonga sailed from the river last year I was able to gain access through the gate and take some fantastic pictures from there, but when I visited today I too found the site was sealed.
We need to know who owns the site, and do they have rights to restrict or stop public access? If so, how were these rights acquired?
There are very few public landings in South Tyneside and Redhead's Landing is known to be one of the oldest, it would be wrong for the public to lose such limited areas of access to the river.
So come on you politicians and journalists out there, investigate and find out why these gates have been sealed, furthermore if it is found that they ought not to be, let's get them opened again and get the site cleaned up, IT'S A MESS!
Click pictures to enlarge
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Now that the election is over, it's time to start looking at some smaller more local issues again. This week one of the issues brought to attention on the South Shields Sanddancer's Message Board is Redhead's Landing. This "public landing" is situated in Commercial Road, South Shields and was for many years available as a public access to the River Tyne, a place where you could launch your boat or go fishing.Little is known about the current ownership of the land or the current rights of the public to access the river from this spot, but there is an assumption that it is still available for public use.
To it's right is McNulty Marine shipyard and to it's left another small boatbuilder's yard, however, a number of local lads have been trying to access the site recently and found the gates to be permanently sealed with large nuts and bolts enclosed in a steel housing. CLOSED!
When the Bonga sailed from the river last year I was able to gain access through the gate and take some fantastic pictures from there, but when I visited today I too found the site was sealed.
We need to know who owns the site, and do they have rights to restrict or stop public access? If so, how were these rights acquired?
There are very few public landings in South Tyneside and Redhead's Landing is known to be one of the oldest, it would be wrong for the public to lose such limited areas of access to the river.
So come on you politicians and journalists out there, investigate and find out why these gates have been sealed, furthermore if it is found that they ought not to be, let's get them opened again and get the site cleaned up, IT'S A MESS!
Click pictures to enlarge
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