Prime flats on the Gateshead Quayside will be left feeling like a “Victorian prison” after a £300m arena complex is built next door, say locals who fear being left in darkness.
Residents of the Baltic Quay apartments have long warned that the huge riverside development will have a devastating impact on their lives – with the prospect of a large hotel blocking out light as it looms over them at the eastern end of the site. And they say the situation has become even worse for them than originally feared, after Gateshead Council approved redrawn designs for the 11-storey hotel earlier this month which will raise the rear of the building by four floors and extend it further back.
Campaigners have now issued a plea for the hotel site, due to be a dual-branded Novotel and Ibis, to be urgently revised again to protect its neighbours’ quality of life.
-copy-dd1f2bf0.jpeg?w=600)
