Hebburn's Award Winning Jetty Refurbishment
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
Public Sector
South Tyneside, Hebburn
Ports and terminals
When South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council was drawing up redevelopment proposals for a derelict riverside jetty at Hebburn next to a large public park, it turned to Royal Haskoning to present a range of options to create a beneficial use of the existing structure and generate a larger recreation space in the area.
We had already had considerable experience with a similar project in Blyth in Northumberland. Like the Blyth Staithes project, the Hebburn jetty was previously used by trains to load coal directly into ships. The advantage here was that, although the top of the jetty was rotten, the strong, structural piles below were generally in good order and could be reused and adapted to safely support a new timber deck.