North East

The North East has a rich industrial heritage and a spectacular natural landscape.

It faces many challenges in regenerating former industrial areas, reviving poor quality housing and developing an economy which has suffered from a decreasing population.

Regional representatives

  • Colin Haylock is an architect-planner and urban design group leader with Ryder Architecture Ltd, a design-led multi-disciplinary practice based in Newcastle and London.
  • Stephen Stokoe is design services manager at Middlesbrough Council and has over 25 years’ experience working in the public, private and overseas sectors.
  • Jim Johnsone is the director of Tees Valley Living, a Housing Market Renewal Partnership covering the five districts of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.

Regional partners

Architecture centres

We fund the following architecture centres:

  • Northern Architecture
    Promotes high quality architecture and design in the region via projects, programmes and events for professionals and the public.

We also fund the Architecture Centre Network, a development and advocacy organisation for the architecture centres.

Tees Valley

The two-year Tees Valley pilot programme ran from July 2005 to July 2007. It was funded by CABE, One NorthEast and Tees Valley Regeneration and focused on four activity strands:

  • city-region identity and planning issues
  • Housing Market Renewal in Tees Valley
  • action masterplanning (through live case study projects)
  • design coding (also using live case studies).

Since July 2007, CABE has increased the number of regional representatives in the Tees Valley area. They and CABE staff continue to work closely with partners to build the capacity of design professionals in the Tees Valley.