New ‘green corridor’ for Southfield Road

The University of Teesside is investing in the local landscape, by starting to create a new ‘green corridor’ on Southfield Road, Middlesbrough.

Dr Derek Simpson, Chair of the University’s Environmental Sub-Committee, said: “The work is part of a longer-term process of the ‘greening-up’ of Southfield Road. This will be extended into Woodlands Road, where trees will be planted outside the University’s Centre for Creative Technologies Building, which is due to open in autumn 2007.”

The University’s Estates Department is working with Middlesbrough Council and will replace eight decayed trees with 12 new ones. ‘Surgery’ will also be undertaken to preserve three other trees.

Work on the corridor starts on Saturday 30 September, and the initial stage lasts for approximately four days over two consecutive weekends. The whole project will be completed by 2008.

To ensure the safety of pedestrians and drivers, the Southfield Road footpath will be closed and cars will be unable to park along the Road, on the weekends of 30 September and 1 October and the following weekend of 7 and 8 October.

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