A major housing development and a supermarket planned for the site of a demolished council estate is hoped to attract professionals and bring investment into Gateshead.
The majority of Clasper Village was knocked down in 2015 after Gateshead Council announced plans to move 200 families out of the area and flatten it after it became plagued by anti-social behaviour.
However one determined resident, Michael Crossman, remained in his flat until 2017, so the final flats on the estate were only demolished early last year.
Now, Gateshead Council has come forward with plans to fill the land left behind with 191 homes and a supermarket.
The residential development will be a mixture of two, three, and four bedroom homes, with 29, two bedroom, properties earmarked as social housing.
A 7,571sqm supermarket proposed for the new estate is expected to bring 20 full time jobs to the area.
The council say its taken several months to develop and refine the plans, which links the village to the Riverside Sculpture Park.
It claims the new homes are needed to attract "high level" professionals and investment and offer a wider range of housing options to the borough.
A planning statement said: "It is necessary for Gateshead to attract and capture inward investment by providing attractive accommodation for an increasing number of high level professionals and investors. This development of this brownfield site for family housing will meet demand and broaden the housing offer within Gateshead as a whole."
The proposals fall short of the authority's target for family housing but the authority says that some of the two-bedroom properties are suitable.
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"Whilst it is acknowledged that the provision of homes suitable for families (deemed to be the 3 and 4 bed homes) at 55% would be slightly below the Council's Borough-wide target of 60% of new housing being suitable for and attractive to families it is still considered that some of the two-bedroom properties would be suitable for families" the planning document said.
Clasper Village is situated adjacent to the southern bank of the River Tyne and is bounded by Askew Road West, the A184 and the East Coast.
Main Line to the south, Morrison Street to the west, and the Redheugh Bridge.
Planners say that the site, has good transport links with easy access to A184 and A189 wrap around and the A1 as well as the train and Metro at Central Station.
Gateshead Council will decide whether to grant the application by Thursday 23rd May.
