3 More Horrific Planning Disasters

[@MonaichFother]

The Get Carter scenes at the top of the multi-story car park, were in what was due to be a restaurant, but it was never completed, because the local fire brigade refused to grant it a fire certificate, on the grounds that if a fire had broken out in it, they wouldn't have been able to get the fire engines up the top due to the steep ramps and low ceilings.

[@RadioJonophone]

The architect of the Trinty Square car park was Owen Luder, also responsible for the famous Dunton Rocket, Derwent Tower, the only one of three proposed buildings on that site. The ground was challenging and had to be stabilised at great cost. This building has now gone. Luder also was responsible for the Triicorn Centre in Portsmouth, similar in design to the Trinity Centre. This too was demolished in 2004. Speaking of the destruction of his work, Luder remained unrepentant, saying that they were underappreciated, and anyway, he'd received and well spent the money from those developments, in a "so what?" flip of the head. Luder died in 2021.

[@thebritexiteer7956]

Good riddance...

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

The Tricorn was stupendously ugly. The only good thing about it? When you were inside you couldn't see it!

[@billylapworth]

I really ought to watch Get Carter.

[@northernhorror8212]

If you want to see grim, gritty1960s Newcastle and Gateshead, it's highly recommended. It's a good film. Has a cool twist you'll never spot too without reading the IMDB trivia 🙃

[@billylapworth]

@@northernhorror8212 the grimness is beautiful, as long as you don’t live in it.

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

Surely the carpark was built in the 1960s as Get Cartef was filmed in 1970 and released in February 1971?

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

I can hear City Song playing over these images.

[@capt.bart.roberts4975]

WTAFF? They demolished the excrescence, thank The FSM!

[@petersmith9470]

Unwell nephew just about sums Gateshead up, trinity Square about as good as the car park is to look at

[@vorpalcheese]

Thank you for these, I really enjoy them! I'm actually a fan of brutalism but in its place, these have been horrific!

[@hebneh]

Why was that parking building never finished or used? Or were some of the lower floors used for a time?

[@GBDT]

The car park was used especially the lower decks. It was a bit of a walk to to get up/down to the top floors. One of the problems with the restaurant was that the wall of the staircase was too low to cope with any possible drunk clients. This meant extra cost to anyone wanting to operate a restaurant there.

[@livetillyoudielovelife2299]

You do a lot of work for these videos

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

tenements ended up there then got demolished

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

my victorian ancestors lived pilgrim street

[@lorrainegriffiths554]

LOL@minecraft

[@7kingkev]

Creepy commentary

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Get Carter?? The Sylvester Stallone, movie?? Why are you showing, an older movie, then?? So, tearing down beautiful building's, to serve the wealthys' eminent domain, of greed and power, is a British invention?? Intimidation of the owners, to get them to move out, so the wealthy can aspire, is another British, ideal?? Now, we know just where, the incentive spawned from, here in America. The republican residual, effect. Like capitalism😔.