Plans for a huge Wallsend workshop which could create hundreds of jobs has been given the green light, despite residents fearing they will be plunged into darkness.
Smulders UK has been approved to build a 55-metre high industrial workshop building in Hadrian Yard. The firm told councillors the workshop is needed to help complete and deliver contracts worth up to £200m and could create hundreds of well-paying skilled jobs.
However, households on Railway Terrace and Hadrian Mews alerted North Tyneside Council that if the plans went ahead they would be plunged into semi-permanent darkness in the winter months by the shadow cast by the building.
