Neighbours have hit out at plans for a new huge industrial unit which they claim will block the "last view in Wallsend of the River Tyne".
Smulders, a steel construction company, has applied for permission to construct the workshop in Hadrian Yard to provide space for welding and industrial fabrication. According to planning documents, the 50-metre high building forms part of a wider investment plan for Hadrian Yard following £160m of Government investment.
But one resident of nearby Railway Terrace not only claims the structure would leave his street in "semi-permanent gloom" in the winter months, but is an act of “cultural vandalism”.
