1. Banksy hits Monkseaton Drive
(News/Whitley Bay)

... hit Monkseaton Drive in what is thought to be a protest against the Council's incompetence in managing the regeneration of Whitley Bay.  In a departure from his usual style, the images are c...

2. Carter car park for Spanish City
(News/Whitley Bay)

As Gateshead Council starts the regeneration of its town centre by demolishing one of its most famous landmarks, Whitley Bay District Council has seen the perfect solution to two of its longest-runnin

3. A regeneration that is actually taking place...
(Editor's Blog/Whitley Bay)

Welcome back to the Whitley Bay Citizen, at our new home www.citizenextra.com. At the moment we are busy adding all the archive content from the original web site, and - even though we do say ours

4. For Sale
(Classified/Whitley Bay)

Regeneration plan for Whitley Bay. Little more than 2 days old. Useful for upsetting residents' action groups. Production of totally new plan forces sale. Bids to Whitley Bay District Council (used no

5. Sign is Whitley Bay's top attraction
(News/Whitley Bay)

...olute lunacy to suggest we would order the destruction of the old sign because we did not want to continue with regeneration plans.  If there's one thing Whitley Bay District Council does wel...

6. Sign given Listed status
(News/Whitley Bay)

...o have spent over £4 billion over the past 23 years persuading Bournemouth Gardens residents to object to regeneration plans so it didn't actually have to carry them out. Commenting on th...

7. Council Crisis a Farce
(News/Whitley Bay)

...porting bad news. Side plots include Councillor Carl Ott's deliberate attempts to direct his Whitley Bay Regeneration Steering Group towards the crash barrier, with the superb allegorical inter...

8. Links comes to funfair
(News/Whitley Bay)

...on just 10 metres away across the road and it needs redeveloping anyway," said Chairman of the Whitley Bay Regeneration Steering Group, Councillor Anton Rogers. For the 48 weeks a year that th...

9. Turmoil as Whitley Bay Council Fails to Set Budget
(News/Whitley Bay)

... get lucky sometime. He added that only last week a council representative put £500,000 earmarked for the regeneration of Whitley Bay on a long-term accumulator bet recommended by a mate of some...

10. Big Posh Bridge Wheelchair Projectile Horror
(News/Newcastle)

... new Millennium Bridge. Little did they know that having a look at Gateshead's contribution to the quayside regeneration (some half-built buildings and an ice-cream van) would have such dire conse...

11. Solution To Spanish City And Shopping Centre Problem Revealed
(News/Whitley Bay)

A local councillor has devised a new plan which will bring about an end to the Council's problems with the shopping centre and Spanish City sites.Under the plans, a new borough will be created to

12. Spanish City to be preserved by listed building status
(News/Whitley Bay)

Whitley Bay District Council have revealed a new plan which they hope will cover up their complete inadequicies.Due to the Council's inactivity and apparent lack of a decent idea between them, the

13. Whitley Bay wins Green Award
(News/Whitley Bay)

...town.A spokseman said "We have received our award from the The Outdoors Society for Social and Ecological Regeneration (TOSSER) for successfully persuing our policy of ripping up hedgerows to ma...

14. Whitley Bay house sold at uninflated price
(News/Whitley Bay)

... hiking up prices of dilapidated buildings such as the old Rumbelows shop and the Spanish City in order to make regeneration plans financially inviable. But this latest sale threatens to cut estate ...

15. New excuse for Spanish City delays
(News/Whitley Bay)

... was an excellent idea. By applying for the SSI status for the whole of Whitley Bay we don't have to do any regeneration anywhere in the town. The derelict state of the town is obviously the lifeb...

16. Whitley is Quail Farming Hotspot
(News/Whitley Bay)

...; A spokesman for Government Office North East said the census figures would play a major part in the planned regeneration of the region. And Whitley Bay was sure to benefit, he added. "We no...

17. Spanish City to be new technology park
(News/Whitley Bay)

The Spanish City site is proposed as a new Hi Tech Business Centre in a draft of the Local Plan revealed today.The plans include a radioactive waste storage site (using surplus Council wheelie bins fo

18. 'Whitley Bay is not centre of universe' - claim
(News/Whitley Bay)

...s: "Whitley Bay residents live in their own little bubble full of wheelie bins, dog turds and Spanish City regeneration. I have performed an in-depth study into the attitudes of local residents a...

19. Taleban denies cultural links with Whitley Bay
(News/Whitley Bay)

...terms of demolishing all our rundown buildings and when the war is over we will be able to get straight on with regeneration. By the time the bombing raids have finished our whole town will have been ...

20. Local man's bits 'shaped like shopping centre'
(News/Whitley Bay)

...ugh Close, Cullercoats, believes his remarkable member could not only make him a fortune but also assist in the regeneration of Whitley Bay. After the Antisocial Services department blew £450...

21. Whitley Bay to be Relocated
(News/Whitley Bay)

...wo towns which are still technically at war. When told of the plans, Herbert Harding, Chair of the Whitley Bay Regeneration Group, was sceptical: "Moving the town isn't going to solve any of...

22. New Plans for Spanish City site
(News/Whitley Bay)

...nish City believing that they are actually riding on the rides. And, according to Fred Green, Lead Member for Regeneration, there will be something for everyone: "All the old people who remembe...

23. Whitley Bay "to be sold"
(News/Whitley Bay)

...t under the small print of the terms and conditions of sale, any new owner will have to commit to the wholesale regeneration of the town. When challenged about this clause, a Council spokesperson adm...

24. Whitley Bay set to Get Carter
(News/Whitley Bay)

PLANS to move a prominent Gateshead landmark to the vacant Spanish City site in Whitley Bay have been approved.Councillors gave the go-ahead to plans to move the Gateshead multi-storey car park to Whi

25. Whitley Rubble under threat
(News/Whitley Bay)

...39;s report has identified a real danger that building new schools may contribute, albeit inadvertently, to the regeneration of the town and hence would be in breach of the council's own policies....

26. Whitley Needs Rubble
(News/Whitley Bay)

A new view on town centre regeneration policy. Neglect and decline. The two words perhaps most associated with Whitley Bay town centre. But it needn't be the case. Independent property expert,

27. Whitley Bay resident 'filled in questionnaire'
(News/Whitley Bay)

...ome money on Whitley Bay. A council member who did not want to be named said: "Whichever proposal for the regeneration of Whitley Bay we accept will set a dangerous precedent. If we listen to th...

28. Toilet doors painted
(News/Whitley Bay)

...which equates to approximately 1,000 new public conveniences. The Council's lead member for regeneration says that this will improve facilities for local residents ...