Projects: Smith's Dock, North Shields

By Ike Ijeh2019-03-28T08:18:00

Urban Splash and Places for People’s £140m regeneration of a North Shields dockyard at Smith’s Dock includes a high proportion of modular homes manufactured offsite

Smith’s Dock is a £140m scheme to breathe new life into a derelict shipyard in North Shields, just east of Newcastle upon Tyne. As an urban regeneration project it takes a pioneering approach, by combining conventionally built flats with a high proportion of offsite manufactured housing.

Having first opened in 1851 on the northern bank of the River Tyne, Smith’s Dock was once one of the largest and busiest shipyards in the North-east, with its seven docks seeing the production of thousands of ships. But industrial decline in the latter half of the 20th century eventually led to the docks’ closure in 1987, after which a familiar pattern of urban dereliction set in.

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