Another prominent Newcastle building is being torn down to make way for the biggest office development in the city centre’s history.
Demolition crews have begun to dismantle Bamburgh House, in Market Street, as the massive clearance works in the heart of the city continue. The nine-storey building, which was home to art studios and other cultural organisations, is the latest to be pulled down under plans for a £155m HMRC office complex.
A huge plot of land at the north end of Pilgrim Street is being totally transformed so it can house Pilgrim’s Quarter, where thousands of civil servants working in Longbenton and Washington are due to be relocated to by 2027. Already disappeared from the city centre under earlier phases of the redevelopment are the former Stack shipping container venue, the Dex car park and the brutalist Commercial Union House.
