Hartlepool South Western Connectivity: Town Centre to Queens Meadow
Closing Date: 28th February 2025
Location: Hartlepool
Travel
Closing Date: 28th February 2025
Location: Hartlepool
Travel
In July and August 2024, we asked for your feedback on our initial proposals to provide better connections into Hartlepool Town Centre from the southwest for people walking, wheeling, and cycling.
Plans were generally well supported. There was particular support for:
Based on your feedback and design reviews, Tees Valley Combined Authority, in partnership with Hartlepool Borough Council, made further updates to the plans; with the aim of making walking, wheeling, and cycling safer and more attractive. In summer 2025, TVCA and Hartlepool Borough Council shared the revised proposals.
Our updated proposals include:
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This scheme is now under construction and is expected to be completed in autumn 2026.
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There is lots of investment going on in Hartlepool town centre to help regenerate the area and encourage growth. This includes £25 million received in 2021 through the Government’s Town Deal which is funding various projects in the town centre including the Waterfront Connectivity Project, re-imagining Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, and restoring the former Wesley Chapel. Hartlepool Borough Council has also been awarded money from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund to create a Production Village in the Lynn Street and Whitby Street area of the town centre. These projects will create jobs and other opportunities in the town centre, as well as increasing visitor numbers.
Alongside these projects is the Hartlepool’s Development Corporation which has been formed to transform Hartlepool and includes: Oakesway Business Park, Queens Meadow Business Park, retail and leisure land – including Mill House Leisure Centre and Middleton Grange Shopping Centre, with public realm and civic buildings.
These planned improvements could encourage more people to travel in Hartlepool town centre. This means the roads could get busier with more traffic. Tees Valley, in partnership with Hartlepool Borough Council, want to deliver improvements to help support this growth and enable quicker, safer, and more reliable journeys.
Hartlepool town centre is an important destination for shoppers, workers, and visitors. The Queens Meadow area is to the south-west of the town, linked by Catcote Road and the busy A689. Many people use these roads to move between the town centre and industrial sites to the south, as well as the Queens Meadow Business Park and residential areas to the south.
Lots of buses travel through the town centre but we know that they often get delayed, and do not always turn up on time. Buses also get delayed at busy junctions south of Hartlepool. This causes longer journeys and makes bus travel to areas in the southwest of the town less attractive.
Some people already walk, wheel and cycle in Hartlepool but in certain areas this can feel unsafe, particularly where there is lots of traffic. We want to improve transport links into the town centre to make it safer and easier for people to make more sustainable journeys from the south and west.
In Hartlepool fewer people own cars compared to the rest of England. We want to improve the transport choices available and make sure everyone can get to where they need to be without relying on a car.
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