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Sunderland has been awarded nearly half a million pounds to improve access to its green spaces. 🌳🏞️🛹The £490,000 Nationa...
20/07/2025

Sunderland has been awarded nearly half a million pounds to improve access to its green spaces. 🌳🏞️🛹

The £490,000 National Lottery Heritage Fund grant is part of the Nature Towns and Cities Programme, which aims to connect people with nature in urban areas.

The city council says the funding will support better transport links between community green spaces, and boost access to places like the coastline, riverbanks, and parks including Mowbray Park and Hetton Bogs.

Plans also include new conservation courses, ecological surveys at sites like Tunstall Hills, and local community grants.

Residents will be asked to help shape the proposals in the coming weeks.

Sunderland’s new Esports Arena gets the green light! 🏟️🏅Sunderland is set to become the UK’s official home of competitiv...
04/07/2025

Sunderland’s new Esports Arena gets the green light! 🏟️🏅

Sunderland is set to become the UK’s official home of competitive gaming, with the British Esports Federation confirming plans for a world-class Gaming and Esports Arena beside the Stadium of Light.

Work will begin in September on the £multi-million, 15,000 sq. ft. venue – the first of its kind in Europe – which will open in early 2026.

The facility will include a 200-seat theatre, 17m LED screen, content studios, performance rooms, retail and outdoor space. It will serve as a training ground for elite Esports athletes, host national and global competitions, and double as a flexible event space.

Leaders say the arena will support jobs, tourism and growth as part of the wider Riverside Sunderland regeneration.

📍Backed by British Esports and Sunderland City Council
🎮 Linked to the already established National Esports Performance Campus
🕹️ Set to support both grassroots talent and elite gaming professionals

Work has completed on a pioneering construction skills academy which will train the next generation of UK builders and e...
26/06/2025

Work has completed on a pioneering construction skills academy which will train the next generation of UK builders and engineers 👷🏽‍♀️ 👷‍♂️

The final finishes have been applied to the Housing Innovation & Construction Skills Academy (HICSA) at Riverside Sunderland.

The building will now be handed over to Sunderland College, part of Education Partnership North East, who will complete the fit-out ahead of HICSA's planned opening for the beginning of the 2025/2026 academic year in September.

Sunderland City Council and Sunderland College partnered to develop the ground-breaking facility, which will educate, train and upskill local people to create innovative, factory-built new homes. Backed by Homes England and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, HICSA will provide the skills pipeline for the constructions industries and its subsectors.

Focusing on providing industry-standard training in modern construction techniques, low-carbon technologies and Skills England priorities, its curriculum will align with the city's long-term ambitions to lead the way in building the sustainable, eco-friendly and affordable homes of tomorrow. 🏘️

Tree planting begins as Riverside Park starts to bloom 🌳 Riverside Park – a new public space on the edge of the city cen...
25/06/2025

Tree planting begins as Riverside Park starts to bloom 🌳

Riverside Park – a new public space on the edge of the city centre - is being transformed into attractive, accessible greenspace, opening up an area of the city that has long been forgotten.

Covering 13.7 hectares of parkland and 5.3 hectares of riverfront, the Park will be delivered in phases and will be made up of five areas; Southern Gateway, Kingsley Gardens, Galley's Gill, Lambton Riverside, and Wearmouth Riverside.

The first 14 of 88 trees that will be introduced in Phase 1 have been planted on the western edge of Kingsley Gardens, with species including Acer campestre, Prunus Avium (Plena) and Carpinus Betulus) trees. 🌱 🌿 🌳

🔴⚪ SUNDERLAND ARE PROMOTED TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE! 🥳🙌🏽
24/05/2025

🔴⚪ SUNDERLAND ARE PROMOTED TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE! 🥳🙌🏽

One of the UK's most ambitious city centre regeneration projects has taken a major step forward, after the appointment o...
23/05/2025

One of the UK's most ambitious city centre regeneration projects has taken a major step forward, after the appointment of Vistry Group as the preferred developer of the new Sheepfolds neighbourhood at Riverside Sunderland.

Vistry North East is set to expand its presence in the city, where it is currently delivering 250 new homes at West Park Quarter on the site of the former Civic Centre, under its Linden Homes brand.

The Sheepfolds neighbourhood will be the most populous of the four residential communities being created at Riverside Sunderland and will comprise up to 600 new homes, alongside new commercial and community spaces, that will support the Council's ambition to re-populate the city centre as part of its social and economic regeneration strategy.

The first phase of development is expected to commence in early 2026, following the completion of infrastructure and enabling works which will prepare the site for residential development.

Vistry's scheme, which has been designed by North East architects FaulknerBrowns Architects , will provide a variety of bespoke, high quality townhouses, duplexes and apartments on land between St Peter's Metro Station and the soon to be completed Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy (HICSA).

The scheme will also include the construction of a new mobility hub providing car parking, EV charging, cycle storage, and other mobility services to support the new Sheepfolds community.

Phase one of the Sheepfolds Neighbourhood is being supported by £4.8m of Brownfield Housing Fund grant which is being administered by the North East Combined Authority .

Take a sneak peek at what to expect when Culture House Sunderland opens later this year 👀 As well as being home to a ne...
28/01/2025

Take a sneak peek at what to expect when Culture House Sunderland opens later this year 👀

As well as being home to a new city library, there will be a whole host of exciting spaces and events for people to enjoy! 📚🎭 🎮

The multi-million pound culture hub will bring a brand new library, podcasting studio and sky garden to the city 🖼️⛲️🪷

It’s official… Sunderland is a music city! 🎶✨Sunderland Music City has announced that its bid to join the Music Cities N...
22/01/2025

It’s official… Sunderland is a music city! 🎶✨
Sunderland Music City has announced that its bid to join the Music Cities Network has been successful, with Sunderland now a fully fledged member of the global collective.

The accreditation will make Sunderland the second city in the UK to join the network, after Manchester. Sunderland will be joining major cities like Bergen, Berlin, Brussels, Gothenburg, Reykjavik, Sydney and Valencia to name but a few. 🌍🎸

Membership of the network is testimony to the talent, hard work and achievement of everyone working in Sunderland’s music sector. And a signal of more great things to come.

Huge congratulations to the brilliant Sunderland Music City team for all of the hard work bringing this together and yesterday’s launch event with North East BIC 🎹🎤🥁🎻🎺🪇

Massive boost for our city and UK motor industry as £50 million investment deal secured between Japan Automatic Transmis...
16/01/2025

Massive boost for our city and UK motor industry as £50 million investment deal secured between Japan Automatic Transmission Company (JATCO), Nissan and the UK government secured to build a new manufacturing site in Sunderland. 🚙👷🧱

The site will be JATCO’s first UK and European plant and is set to create and support hundreds of jobs in the North East.

The new site will help create 183 new high-value jobs in the region and support over 400 in the wider supply chain. It will also produce 3-in-1 electric vehicle powertrains for Nissan’s neighbouring Sunderland plant.

Nissan is one of the largest UK-based vehicle manufacturers, employing around 6000 people across its Sunderland facilities, and today’s announcement builds on their £2 billion investment in the region in 2023 to build electric vehicles.

Sunderland Council have approved plans for new neighbourhood: “Farringdon Row” will form part of 1,000-home Sunderland R...
11/01/2025

Sunderland Council have approved plans for new neighbourhood: “Farringdon Row” will form part of 1,000-home Sunderland Riverside regeneration masterplan.

Farringdon Row will be built on a 4.6-acre brownfield site, with work expected to start by June 2025.

The new homes will include 67 two to three-bedroom houses and 98 one to two-bedroom apartments.

Residents will have access to private and communal gardens, as well as the nearby River Wear and Riverside Park.

The new development is the second of four new neighbourhoods in the council’s wider Riverside Sunderland masterplan, which aims to build 1,000 new homes and one million sq ft of office space in the former industrial heart of the city.

New photos from RJX MEDIA highlight Sunderland’s vibrancy 🌃🏗️🎇
23/12/2024

New photos from RJX MEDIA highlight Sunderland’s vibrancy 🌃🏗️🎇

Work to begin on city’s new Riverside Park 🌳 An ambitious project to transform swathes of land spanning both sides of th...
19/12/2024

Work to begin on city’s new Riverside Park 🌳

An ambitious project to transform swathes of land spanning both sides of the River Wear into a new city centre park is set to get underway.

Esh Construction has been appointed by Sunderland City Council to lead on the first phase of Riverside Park, situated at the heart of Riverside Sunderland.

One of the UK’s largest urban regeneration projects, Riverside Sunderland is a multi-billion-pound project breathing new life into the city’s former industrial heartland.

Covering 13.7 hectares of parkland and 5.3 hectares of river, Riverside Park, which comprises Galley’s Gill, Kingsley Gardens, Lambton Riverside and Wearmouth Riverside, will be delivered in several phases as the wider regeneration progresses.

Phase one will include the creation of the new park entrance, which will be situated at the southern end of Galley’s Gill, between the Riverside multi-storey car park and the new Eye Hospital. The area includes new ponds and landscaping that will provide attractive and interactive social spaces and a variety of flora and fauna that will increase biodiversity and natural habitat.

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