Petition to save Teessaurus Park

Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants said:
The dinosaurs would be better along the Riverside walks between the barrage and Newport bridge. A nice little walk out to tire kids legs.
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That's a great suggestion. It's on an industrial estate at the moment, hardly the spot for a recreation park.

I used to walk that way on a lunchtime when I worked at Lin Din, had to make sure all of the jonnies were off my boot soles before I went back into the office.

Isn't that area by the barrage Stockton though?
 
JonnyHistory said:
No I think you need to stop being so evasive.

It's quite simple.
This site has an existing park that's used by the community and this will encroach and in some parts take over some of that.

I'm asking if the other identified sites have existing parks on so we can provide a site without the expense of moving an existing park.

It's not a hard question to understand and you're deliberately avoiding it.
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While the dinosaur park is called a "Park" it's not really a park. We are not proposing putting a Gypsy site in any of our towns parks, that would be crazy. As I've said before the proposals in the local plan would be to use some land where the dinosaurs are for Gypsy and travellers, where the current dinosaurs are wouldn't be affected indeed the local plan would protect the right of way down to the rivers edge like it is now. If it's deemed at the time(possibly up to15 years away) that it would be better to move the dinosaurs then that could always be an option.
 
Teesaurus Park featured in a launch I went to on Monday at Middlesbrough College - Tees Heritage Walk - this is once a year charity heritage walk from Middlesbrough College around the dock and along the Tees to Stockton and back. It happens in May but will be augmented by QR codes revealing the heritage of the river and the towns on its banks.
The park and the riverside walk became very popular during lockdown when people were restricted in movement. Ever since then cyclists, dog walkers and families have made the park and the walk along the river a firm favourite.
The dinosaurs are very much site specific, according to the NE Statues social media group. They would take some shifting.
Tees Heritage Walk details linked below. Teesaurus Park is No2 on the route. It isn't a breakfast club link, not sure why that comes up, it is to the charity walk.

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fmttmadmin said:
Teesaurus Park featured in a launch I went to on Monday at Middlesbrough College - Tees Heritage Walk - this is once a year charity heritage walk from Middlesbrough College around the dock and along the Tees to Stockton and back. It happens in May but will be augmented by QR codes revealing the heritage of the river and the towns on its banks.
The park and the riverside walk became very popular during lockdown when people were restricted in movement. Ever since then cyclists, dog walkers and families have made the park and the walk along the river a firm favourite.
The dinosaurs are very much site specific, according to the NE Statues social media group. They would take some shifting.
Tees Heritage Walk details linked below. Teesaurus Park is No2 on the route. It isn't a breakfast club link, not sure why that comes up, it is to the charity walk.

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The proposed local plan maintains that right of way.
 
I mean let's be realistic - building a couple of houses on muirfield in nunthorpe prompted a campaign against it, what sites are people aware of in MBC lands that are both available and away from any existing housing that people think they would prefer to be used over industrial estate land? If it's anywhere near residential areas there will be a massive fuss.

So I agree it's probably easy to say don't put it at the park, but I struggle to think of anywhere new and there is already one there so seems logical to expand that one.

Not sure I agree on moving them to the "walk" between barrage and Newport either; it's not a very safe walk that, it used to be on my running route before I moved, and it was a bit ropey sometimes. It's got regular groups of louts cycling about, there's been gropings, a rape, muggings and when Durham uni operated their campus they told people not to walk down there if it could be helped. it's not very accessible by car if kids just want to go to it, and I guess not everyone is able bodied to walk it from where you can put a car. It might be more viable on the other side of the river as those housing estates slowly progress down that way from the Stockton end, as there was talk of the towns joining up at some point

I'd say better at the barrage itself but then that is Stockton.
 
One of the only good things middlesbrough has along the river bank so let's get rid of it.

While it's not on the same scale, someone once saw fit to run the A66 through middlesbrough centre and knock down some amazing buildings. Councils are so short sighted.
 
The Barrage seems a decent place to move it to, but I'm not sure how close to two councils are though. I'm sure more people actually would see it then than currently.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
That's a great suggestion. It's on an industrial estate at the moment, hardly the spot for a recreation park.

I used to walk that way on a lunchtime when I worked at Lin Din, had to make sure all of the jonnies were off my boot soles before I went back into the office.

Isn't that area by the barrage Stockton though?
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It’s Boro from Newport Bridge to the Old River Tees, after that it becomes Stockton.

The old incinerator site would make a good Dino park.

I just don’t understand why people like it exactly where it is.
 
Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants said:
It’s Boro from Newport Bridge to the Old River Tees, after that it becomes Stockton.

The old incinerator site would make a good Dino park.

I just don’t understand why people like it exactly where it is.
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I would argue that a council that is struggling to make ends meet has hardly the money to uproot and move the dinosaurs to a new location. This has nothing to do with 'not in my backyard' but common sense tells you to find a suitable location for the travellers families that doesn't mean losing a local attraction.
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I would argue that a council that is struggling to make ends meet has hardly the money to uproot and move the dinosaurs to a new location. This has nothing to do with 'not in my backyard' but common sense tells you to find a suitable location for the travellers families that doesn't mean losing a local attraction.
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Port Clarence has a lot of empty properties and plenty of land .
Could this be an ideal site for the travellers?
 
Simply red said:
Port Clarence has a lot of empty properties and plenty of land .
Could this be an ideal site for the travellers?
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I think it needs to be suitable to meet the travellers needs and officials to work with the travellers spokesman. We can't make the mistake of dumping them anywhere but it certainly should be detrimental to the dinosaur park.
 
Simply red said:
Port Clarence has a lot of empty properties and plenty of land .
Could this be an ideal site for the travellers?
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Port Clarence is in Stockton, we in Middlesbrough have to identify possible land for gypsies and travellers by law in our own boundaries.
Remember this is for the local plan, it just means we have identified an area that gypsies and travellers can use, which we have to by law, it doesn't actually mean it will ever happen.
 
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