Identified sites and site visits

While much of our modelling was done on the river Tyne, it represents only a small proportion of potential sites for tidal basins.   

The large scale map does not tell the whole picture, not even a fraction of it.  From site visits, studying maps (Ordnance survey, Google Earth) and in some cases from local knowledge we built a "compendium" of potential sites, possible power production or power storage levels and further industrial development or social housing opportunities.  

On our travels we found some land fenced off, some other land quite open (in some cases genuinely open, in others the fencing had broken away). There were signs everywhere of Industrial decay. 

We can do something about this.  

Here following are some photographs of our site investigations.  

Liverpool and Birkenhead

We made 2 visits to Liverpool and Birkenhead

West Float, Birkenhead. 

We found industrial dereliction like this everywhere we went. 

Wherever we went, we always talked to the locals. 

We learned a lot. 

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Sunderland

The entrance to a dock space is in the middle of the photograph.  

We also visited Rosyth (pre-pandemic) the Tees (twice, the Tees is to be the site of a Freeport and little land is left), London (twice) downstream of Tower Bridge, and Bristol, which was also pre-pandemic.   

Two other visits planned for Hull and Cardiff (during 2022) had to be aborted due to adverse weather conditions.