Off Topic Hull City Centre Public Realm Strategy

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It was actually tweeted by someone to show the works that had been done on Ferens Art Gallery, so I've no idea how old it is.

 

I can't think helping that the dock where HMS Bounty was built, could be better used...

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Maybe it's about to change...

Three disused docks in Old Town, Hull could be restored
By HDMAngusYoung | Posted: September 15, 2016

By Angus Young

Three disused docks in Hull's Old Town could be set for a new lease of life.

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  For the best part of 200 years they were the focal point of the city's ship-building industry.
  
  
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  Among the vessels built there was HMS Bounty, made famous by the subsequent mutiny of her crew who rebelled against its commander William Bligh while on an expedition to Tahiti.
  
  Built in 1794, the vessel was originally known as Bertha and used as a bulk cargo ship to transport coal.
  
  
  Today all three docks are partly hidden behind locked gates well off the tourist trail between Dock Office Row the River Hull.
  
  Together, they are a sad reminder of a once thriving part of the city with a rusting crane still overlooking silt-filled spaces where vessels were once built and repaired.
  
  However plans are now in the pipeline to use them as new public spaces. If given the go-ahead, the initiative aims to build on the success of the recently-opened public amphitheatre at the former Central Dry Dock opposite The Deep.
  
  That project was spearheaded by the Hull-based Wykeland group as part of its regeneration programme in the Fruit Market.
  
  
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  The stage has since proved a big hit with the public, being used as a outdoor venue for music, dance and live theatre at both the Humber Street Sesh and the Freedom Festival.
  
  The three docks now being looked at include two dry docks and the former basin which was used as the entrance from the River Hull into the old Queen's Dock.
  
  The idea is to repair and restore the fabric of the docks, provide new footpaths and information boards telling the history of the site and creating new wildlife habitats.
  
  One option being examined is the creation of so-called 'pocket parks' next to the river.
  
  A bid for up to £3m worth of European Union funding is being drawn up by Hull City Council to carry out the work as part of a wider project to open up more land next to the River Hull for public use.
  
  City council regeneration director Mark Jones said: "The bid covering the dry docks is for EU funding which is currently committed for the UK.
  
  "Should the Brexit vote cast a doubt over that funding down the line we would expect the government to maintain the same level of grant funding through bodies such as the Local Enterprise Partnership.
  
  "Either way, it will be a major enhancement project running alongside the new River Hull defences."
  
  
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  Mr Jones said Wykeland's transformation of the Central Dry Dock showed what was possible.
  
  "The three docks are in private ownership but we believe that need not be a barrier.
  
  "If we are successful in this bid, we will be looking at a larger £7m scheme to create a linear walkway right along the river."
  
  The land around the three docks was previously earmarked for possible residential development.
  
  Planning permission was even granted for up to 64 apartments but that approval has since expired.
  
  The facelift project will be in addition to the recently-announced £36.9m programme to repair flood defences along the river.
  
  Starting later this year, the Environment Agency scheme will tackle up to 39 different locations along a 7.5km stretch of the river.
  
  The first stage of the project will be complete by 2019 and additional phases of work will follow.
  
  http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/ghghhgg/story-29717011-detail/story.html#ixzz4KJSnOqLY
  

 

Getting there...

 

Quite an interesting update on thirteen development sites across the city...

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/what...ents-in-hull/story-29742772-detail/story.html

 

I'm actually encouraged that so many of those developments are actually progressing, normally when you see these lists, there's nothing happening on any of them. There's only really the Manor one (which most of us expected to fall apart) and the Wellington Street one, which is the Spencer Group, who currently have their hands full building the £150m green energy plant and will probably get started before too long, so it's really not bad (it also doesn't mention some of the big ones, like the residential development on Humber Street/Blanket Row).

 

The new green energy plant on Cleveland Street's bloody massive...

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