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Article: GROUP FORMED FOR RIVERSIDE.
- Article from:
- Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2006
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A NEW association is being formed this weekend to safeguard the future of South Shields riverside.
People living in and around Green's Place, on the town's Lawe Top, successfully fought a campaign earlier this year against a controversial housing development on the riverside.
There was outrage at an application to convert the site of the existing Saft Battery factory in River Drive into a 229 flats complex, incorporating two huge circular rotundas.
The plan was labelled a "blot on the landscape" and an action group was formed to fight it.
And the opponents were celebrating in April when the planning application was rejected.
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