Images have been released showing how a massive new housing development on a former South Tyneside shipyard site will look. Earlier this week, South Tyneside Council’s Planning Committee voted to approve a planning application for the former Hawthorn Leslie yard in Hebburn.
This includes 446 new homes, with a mix of 407 apartments and 39 houses, as well as a riverside bar and restaurant, convenience store, children’s play area and community centre. The development will be named Kelly’s Yard in honour of Lord Louis Mountbatten’s famous World War Two K-Class destroyer.
Once completed, the former shipyard site, which was closed in the 1980s, will be transformed into a new residential quarter with several towering apartment blocks and new houses. This includes 12 studio apartments, 130 one-bedroom apartments and 265 two-bedroom apartments, as well as five three-bed houses, seven four-bed houses and 27 five-bed houses.
