The Teesside Trade Podcast

Hartlepool approves the Environment Agency's £25m Greatham North East flood scheme with BAM Nuttall in the frame; Southbay Engineering finishes the £9m Redcar Bulk Terminal quay upgrade for Net Zero Teesside; Redcar and Cleveland awards a £39,543 parapet repair on Waupley Bridge — plus a profile of Barrier Group's Teesside HVAC team, and why early supplier engagement matters.

Show notes, sources and transcript: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/episodes/ep-10-greatham-flood-scheme-redcar-bulk-terminal-barrier-group/

Homes by Esh wins approval for 230 homes at Burtree Garden Village, part of a 2,000-home, 20-year programme; Tees Valley Combined Authority picks Morgan Sindall for early contractor involvement on the Teesside Airport rail station; Charles Church gets the go-ahead for 116 homes at High Tunstall, Hartlepool — plus a profile of THREE60 Energy, the Aberdeen firm scaling its new Billingham hub with a CF Fertilisers contract, and why the small tickets open the big doors. Sources and links: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/episodes/ep-9-burtree-230-homes-airport-station-hartlepool-three60/

Tees Valley Lithium lands up to £18.3m of DRIVE35 backing for its £185m Billingham refinery with around 1,100 construction jobs; PD Ports starts the largest works in South Gare breakwater's 150-year history (55,000 tonnes of Norwegian granite, McLaughlin & Harvey with Herbosch-Kiere); and Hartlepool's next-generation Xe-100 nuclear plant enters Generic Design Assessment. Plus a profile of px Group, the Thornaby firm operating NZT Power's carbon capture backbone and hiring ~100 locals, and this week's tip: follow the operator, not just the builder.

Sources and links: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/episodes/ep-8-billingham-lithium-south-gare-hartlepool-nuclear-px-group/

Stockton councillors approve Avant Homes' 394-home Bishopsgarth scheme by eleven votes to one, with 87 more homes waved through at Brotton the same week; Reds10 breaks ground on 152 new prison places at HMP Kirklevington Grange near Yarm; and Middlesbrough College opens a £1.5m expansion of its TTE engineering centre.

Plus: a profile of Cullum Detuners, the firm manufacturing the high-specification flue gas ducting for NZT Power from Stockton (fabrication by In-Spec in Middlesbrough, 40 fabrication roles over 15 months), and this week's tip — why the earliest subcontract packages on a big phased housing site are let before the show home opens.

Sources and links for every story are at https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/episodes/ep-7-harrowgate-lane-approved-kirklevington-prison-cullum-detuners/

Capital&Centric reveals phase one of Middlehaven with 462 homes and a public drop-in on 10 September; Esh Construction hands back the A172/A174 Marton Interchange after a six-month overhaul; and Avant Homes' 394-home Bishopsgarth scheme goes to Stockton's planning committee on 9 September — plus a profile of North Skelton precision engineer Tees Components, and how to actually get on public-sector tender lists.

Sources and full transcript: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/episodes/ep-6-middlehaven-462-homes-marton-interchange-tees-components/

- Middlehaven phase one plans revealed with 462 homes for Middlesbrough: https://teessidetradenews.co.uk/news/middlehaven-462-homes-phase-one-plans/

- Place North East: Plans revealed for 462-home Middlehaven neighbourhood: https://www.placenortheast.co.uk/plans-revealed-for-462-home-middlehaven-neighbourhood-with-uk-first-ambition/

- Middlesbrough Council: Major works set for completion at key junction: https://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/latest-news/major-works-set-for-completion-at-key-junction/

- Teesside Live: Plans for almost 400 homes, Lidl car park cameras and children's home to be decided: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/plans-almost-400-homes-lidl-34549808

- Tees Business: Tees Components continues to deliver world-class manufacturing from East Cleveland: https://teesbusiness.co.uk/2026/09/03/tees-components-continues-to-deliver-world-class-manufacturing-from-east-cleveland/

Middlesbrough Council unveils a 15-project, 10-year investment prospectus — a new 2,000-seat theatre on the Civic Centre site, a hotel at Gurney House and thousands of homes. Around £600,000 is still unclaimed in the Tees Valley Apprenticeship Levy Matching Service. And Stockton Council considers six assisted living homes on Darlington Back Lane.

Plus: a profile of Middlesbrough pipework fabricator Tulway Fabrications (Skippers Lane), and a practical tip on keeping your accreditations tender-ready for main-contractor supply chains.

Stories and sources:

- £600,000 left in Tees Valley levy pot as apprentice scheme hits 89 placements: https://teessidetradenews.co.uk/news/tees-valley-apprenticeship-levy-matching-fund/

- Middlesbrough theatre and homes plans (BBC News): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g5z50e3k0o

- Biggest change to Middlesbrough town centre in a generation (Teesside Live): https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/middlesbrough-town-centre-changes-generation-34488622

- Six assisted living homes plan under consideration by Stockton Council (Teesside Live): https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/stockton-assisted-living-homes-council-34534832

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This week: MGL Demolition starts taking down the six-storey former Golden Eagle hotel in Thornaby after around 470 tonnes of asbestos removal; a 42-room hotel in South Bank aimed solely at Teesworks and freeport contractors is granted its alcohol licence; and Stantec is appointed to lead Tees Valley Combined Authority's 20-year spatial development strategy.

Local firm of the week: Cavendish Northern of Billingham, awarded a piping pre-fabrication contract by Technip Energies for the East Coast Cluster (NZT Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership), creating 60+ skilled roles.

Tip of the week: how to price demolition, strip-out and enabling work without taking on someone else's unknowns for free.

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Episode page and transcript: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk/

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The Redcar Bulk Terminal quay upgrade is complete and Cavendish Northern lands an East Coast Cluster piping contract, PD Ports switches on 2,000 panels at Teesport, and 323 more homes are approved at Skelton. Terry Oakes joins Darren Turnbull from this week.

Show notes and transcript: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk

Stories: https://teessidetradenews.co.uk

BA Joinery of Billingham is the Teesside Growth Award winner at the 2026 North East Business Awards - bespoke joinery manufacture and fit-out installation from a Billingham factory, serving projects across the UK.

Also this week on the Teesside Trade Podcast, with Darren Turnbull and Terry Oakes:

- BAM starts construction on the GBP13m Skinningrove Flood Alleviation Scheme for the Environment Agency and Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, running to 2028 - a new bridge, piled foundations and a long tail of subcontract work in East Cleveland.

- Two housing applications land at Stockton Council: up to 160 homes off Yarm Back Lane and 12 affordable homes near Raleigh Road in Norton.

- British Steel takes on 17 apprentices at its Teesside and Skinningrove mills, part of a 70-strong intake drawn from more than 1,000 applications.

- Practical tip: how a small firm gets onto a main contractor's subcontract list before the packages are let.

Full transcript and source links: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk

Written versions of every story: https://teessidetradenews.co.uk

Our launch episode: Alfor Aviation's £50m Teesside Airport campus, the £23m Stockton Waterfront park, £9m of new bungalows in Thorntree, 243 solar-ready homes at Wynyard — and what the skills shortage means for all of it.

Show notes and transcript: https://teessidetradepodcast.co.uk

Stories: https://teessidetradenews.co.uk