Coastal View & Moor News Issue 17


Olympic hero’s jump-start for £31m leisure scheme


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Hundreds check outTesco jobs


undreds of long- term unemployed


people have registered their interest in jobs being created by a new Tesco supermarket on Teesside. The retail giant is building an eco-store, which is set to open in February, on land opposite Eston Recreation Ground.


The development is set to provide a major shot in the arm for the local economy, with 450 jobs available in the store. And with half of those guaranteed for the long-term unemployed through a special regeneration partnership with Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, demand for the roles is already high. The authority’s Routes to Employment recently wrote to 1,500 people who had been unemployed for six months or longer and had previously declared an interest in the roles.


Mayor Olwyn Peters with Tesco store development manager Simon Fearn


Jonathan Edwards examines a model of the leisure scheme with Redcar sports stars Danny Hart and Charlotte Ellis


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ne of Britain’s all-time great athletes came to Redcar to officially launch a £31m project to bring first-class sporting facilities to the town. Former Olympic, world an Commonwealth gold medal winning triple jumper Jonathan Edwards visited the site in Redcar which will be home to a 25-metre swimming pool, training and leisure pool, dance hall, fitness suite and junior gym, and a sports hall. Mr Edwards was joined by two of Redcar and Cleveland’s most promising sporting talents for the landmark occasion. World and European paratriathlon champion Charlotte Ellis, of New Marske, and Redcar mountain biking star Danny Hart were on hand for the ceremony, along with the Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland, Councillor Olwyn Peters.


Charlotte, of the Cleveland


Triathlon Club and New Marske Harriers, has won the world and European titles in the Tri6 category


for the past two years, as well as picking up a host of other medals since starting the sport in 2008. And Danny recently became world champion with an outstanding performance at the Union Cycliste Internationale Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships in Switzerland.


As well as providing an array of sporting facilities, the Redcar Leisure and Community Heart development, between Kirkleatham Street and Coatham Road, will also include business space, community facilities, car parking and landscaped public spaces.


The Redcar Leisure Community Heart project is in the process of applying for part funding by the NE ERDF competitiveness programme 2007 - 2011.


The ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-2013 is bringing over £300m into the North East to support innovation, enterprise and business support across the region.


Of those, 773 were later invited for informal meetings with Tesco. More than 600 went on to attend the sessions at St Peter’s Social Club in South Bank, with 559 now undergoing basic skills assessments for the roles.


Interviews for the long-term unemployed posts will follow, with the recruitment process for the remainder of the jobs starting this month.


Once completed, the store will complement


on-going efforts to regenerate the Greater Eston area. Councillor Lynn Pallister, the Council’s Cabinet Member for Housing and Neighbourhood Renewal, said: “This exciting development is yet another landmark moment in the regeneration of the South Bank area.


“The demand for the hundreds of jobs available has been extremely high, particularly in these difficult economic times, and we look forward to seeing many local people as part of the workforce when the store opens for business.” To contact Routes to Employment call (01642) 495707 or e-mail routes2@redcar- cleveland.gov.uk


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MyPlace starts to take shape


edcar residents and visitors to the seafront will start to see the structure of the £4.9m MyPlace building take shape this month as work progresses on the world class facility for young people.


Council contractors BAM Construction have already established the foundations for the building which when completed next summer will provide an array of activities for 13 to 19 year olds in the area.


The centre will include exciting new facilities including:


• performance space for local bands • recording studio


• dance studio


• arts and craft room • digital media suite • radio room


• hair and beauty suite • café.


The new building will provide all the facilities necessary to develop and nurture creative activity in the areas young people.


Myplace is a multi-million pound government programme to deliver world class places for young people to go.


The programme is funded by the Department for Education (DfE) and administered by the Big Fund (BIG), the non-Lottery funding operation of the Big Lottery Fund.


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