Dear Planning Department Chair Brian Hogg

In response to the article in the Evening Gazette, where it was reported that Redcar Council propose to create a new Esplanade and are looking for ideas.

I enclose a plan/concept to articulate a design founded upon recreation and pedestrian convenience, by creating a one way traffic system along part of the Esplanade behind M&S, while maintaining two way traffic outside Denny's Marine Garage and the Royal Hotel

This would create broad vista pavement with a one way road system, just wide enough for public & single car transport. I also propose the broadening of the Esplanade opposite the Old Palace Theatre.

The road would be diverted to go around the newly created plaza. The plaza would encompass a glass dome called ‘The Redcar Pavilion’ Used for seaside concerts, exhibitions, business seminars etc.

Ideally, part of the project would work to restore the Palace Theatre. This restoration would be designed around creating a worldwide, Internet Broadcasting auditorium for live concert from the theatre. Tickets sold via the Theatre website. The Theatre could also contain ‘Radio Redcar’ a community fellowship project.

Further down the Promenade, from the Royal slip way, to the bottom of Clarendon Street, a new reclamation project over the area of the old pier to create a new Royal recreational boat and leisure park.
At the seaward side of the boat park, a 100 foot light house shaped public viewing tower. This will have a helter-skelter walking ramp up and around the tower, with a domed glass shelter on the top.
Upon the south east corner, next to the old sea wall and sheltered from the wind, the new Royal Boat Park would encompass a circular beach level Sun corner with steps around the sea wall down into the sand vista.

The design follows sympathetically the natural contour of the foreshore and creates superb land protection. The new Royal boat park would also stop sand shift and tidal beach scouring along the foreshore, and free Granville Terrace for the hundreds of tons of sand blown onto the road each winter.

It also replaces the car as king of the promenade, while still maintaining a motorised thoroughfare at the north west end. The new very broad pavement will enhance access to the pomade shops and ice cream parlours. These new broad pavements will also allow for ‘rentable by the season’ sea wall side kiosks to provide summer day consumer services which could include beach changing and Tea rooms.

No Blackpool style lights, lots of seaside trees, maintaining the Lifeboat traditional access to the sea.

Yours faithfully
©Philip Chisholm
Cc Editor of the Evening Gazette