In July and August 2024, we asked for your feedback on our initial proposals to provide improvements in Hartlepool Town Centre for people walking, wheeling, and cycling.
Based on your feedback and design reviews Tees Valley Combined Authority, in partnership with Hartlepool Borough Council, have made some further changes to our plans for Church Street to the Waterfront; with the aim of making walking, wheeling, and cycling safer and more attractive options.
Your responses helped to develop these proposals further, and we want to now show you our latest plans.
The Levelling Up Funding (LUF) secured for this project is fully pledged for sustainable transport projects to promote more walking, wheeling, cycling and public transport in our area. Additional plans for this area will be progressing later this year; please sign up to stay up to date.
Please view our plans to improve journeys to the Waterfront along Church Street.
For an enlarged version of the map, please click here.
For an enlarged version of the visualisation, please click here.
The plans will be finalised based on further feedback from the survey closing on 28 Feb 2025. Once finalised, Hartlepool Borough Council, in their role as the Highways Authority, will hold a formal advertisement on final plans from March 2025.
Additional plans to improve transport plans in Hartlepool will be coming forward later this year; please sign up to stay up to date.
This scheme is due to be implemented in autumn 2025. If you have any remaining questions or feedback about the updated proposals, you can:
Hartlepool is a coastal town with a diverse economy. The town centre is an important destination for shoppers, workers, and visitors.
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There is lots of investment going on in Hartlepool town centre to help regenerate the area and encourage economic 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.
These improvements could encourage more people to travel in Hartlepool town centre. This means the roads will get busier and traffic could worsen. Tees Valley Combined Authority, in partnership with Hartlepool Borough Council, want to deliver improvements to help support this growth and enable quicker, safer and more reliable journeys. In addition, the Hartlepool Development Corporation has set out a masterplan on revitalising the town centre, Oakesway Business Park and Queens Meadow Business Park.
We know there are issues on busy roads and at junctions in the town centre where lots of traffic can build up.
For walkers, wheelers, and cyclists there is not a clear and direct path between Hartlepool Town Centre and the Waterfront. In some areas, cyclists must share the road space with other vehicles. There are lots of busy roads near the town centre and a lack of safe crossing facilities for people walking, wheeling, and cycling. This causes safety concerns and makes cycling less attractive. Hartlepool Borough Council have developed ideas on how to improve this route and connect it to the existing path leading towards Seaton Carew.
Improvements for walkers, wheelers, cyclists, and bus users would also complement other improvements in Hartlepool town centre, including the Hartlepool Station Redevelopment & Hartlepool Pedestrian Connectivity improvements scheme.
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