EAST PILGRIM STREET DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK MASTERPLAN
Urban 6,7&8 HIGHAM PLACE
LAING ART GALLERY
JOHN DOBSON HOUSE
PORTLAND HOUSE
Commercial Property Agents “Commercial property agent GVA has started to market the [East Pilgrim Street] site to attract a hotel chain, shops and restaurants to change the area into a ‘retail and leisure quarter’.”
“To regenerate land and historic assets and promote comprehensive retail-led mixed-use sustainable redevelopment in the East Pilgrim Street Regeneration Opportunity Area, which creates an attractive high quality quarter of the City Centre to live, work and visit and which positively contributes towards the wider renaissance of Newcastle City as the regional capital.”
Reuben Brothers
The East Pilgrim Street area is almost entirely owned by the Reuben Brothers (the UK’s richest people, 2016) who have been working through their offshore company Taras Properties Ltd, which uses the UK front Motcomb Estates Ltd. The brothers have been working closely with Newcastle City Council to redevelop the site to transform and pedestrianise it and turn it into ‘Pilgrim’s Quarter’.
EPS Development Framework
CARLIOL HOUSE
CENTRAL POLICE STATION AND MAGISTRATES COURT ST. ANDREW CHURCH
FIRE STATION
THE ENIGMA BAR
WORSWICK CHAMBERS
93-101 PILGRIM STREET
Our ‘Urban’ subgroup initiates the primer stage by analysing and critiquing the past and current proposals. After pinpointing and justifying our main critiques, we have portrayed these in the following visual expressions, where urban design rules are headlined to propose methods of creating socially rich and progressive cities for the future.
Uses
Permeability
Mix
Key Views
Legibility
Movement All Ages
Vistas
Strategic Design Principles
Uniqueness Local Distinctiveness
Placemaking
Sustainable
Historic Environment
Scale, Massing, Height
Consideration to Surrounding Environment
Public Realm
Listed Buildings
High Quality
Enhance
Improve Integration
Landmarks
“Newcastle City Coucil said Pilgrim Street is one of the most strategically important city centre regeneration areas in the north east of England, and the authority has prioritised its redevelopment.” ChronicleLive: Who are the ‘billionaire brothers’ planning to change the face of Newcastle city centre? by Laura Hill 30/08/2017
“The East Pilgrim Street site provides 12 acres of prime mixed use development land linking Newcastle’s retail and commercial core to the quayside.” EPS Development Framework, North Area Document
EPS Development Framework
The urban group interrogated the proposed urban redevelopment plans, and how the EPS master-plan worked behind the scenes.
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ChronicleLive: Who are the ‘billionaire brothers’ planning to change the face of Newcastle city centre? by Laura Hill - 30/08/2017
Former Fire Station and Police Station buildings within the East Pilgrim Street site
“This is an exciting opportunity for an operator partner to bring forward a high quality hotel, food and beverage offer which isn’t currently provided within Newcastle’s City Centre leisure offer.” Ray Minto, director of land and development at GVA
A CGI by Ryder Archiecture shows how the former fire station in Newcastle could be transformed with new restaurants
“Newcastle is set to get a new landmark after the city council approved a plan to build 26-storeys of flats on a vacant warehouse site... The apartments will be aimed at young families and professionals, with the applicant saying new city centre flats will encourage graduates to stay in Newcastle and boost its economy.” ChronicleLive: Newcastle’s skyline is about to change as 26-storey skyscraper is given approval to be built by Simon Meechan - 03/02/2017
How the Stonegate Developments 26-storey building in Newcastle would look (Image: Newcastle City Council)
“North East leisure developers Danieli Holdings have revealed plans for Stack Newcastle – a “box park” which would extend the firm’s lease at the former Odeon cinema site for four years. [It would be]... a huge shopping and leisure destination in the heart of Newcastle using up to 60 shipping containers, with the potential to create more than 500 jobs.” ChronicleLive: Plans revealed for derelict Odeon site - and they aren’t what you think by Coreena Ford 18/10/2017
Stack Newcastle in a pop-up plaza which could host a revolving calendar of events (Image: Danieli Holdings)
02 / primer / design portfolio
PLUMMER TOWER PLUMMER HOUSE
The future of Newcastle’s city centre faces infestation from generic and deceitful urban design where profit is the primary motive. Overseas investors are currently planning and building on the East Pilgrim Street site at the heart of the city, disregarding social and cultural contexts for capital returns and therefore undermining the rich social potential of the area.
Strategic Vision For East Pilgrim Street: