End of the Road for Court

[testing times]

I wonder, was this a slip of the keyboard?

"Hartlepool and Teesside Magistrates' Court will be amalgamated to create Cleveland Magistrates' Court which will be operated at the current Middlesbrough court building"

Read more at: http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/closure-of-hartlepool-magistrates-court-ends-600-years-of-legal-heritage-1-8342964

[kevplumb]

Martin Slimings, chairman of the bench at Hartlepool, said everyone involved with the court, as well as the town's MP, Iain Wright and the council, fought against the closure, but were sadly unsuccessful

That's probably because they couldn't fight sleep and there was nothing in it for them

[The Great Dictator]

Another excuse for criminals not to attend.

[Land Phil]

Do we need a bail hostel if we don't have a court ?

They should be moved to the boro too.

[mk1]

Do we need a bail hostel if we don't have a court ?

Nail, right on head.
The problem is the  transfer of all the groups that work in/around the court. All those jobs are now in 'Boro Town Centre and the spending potential also moved there.
It is the slow exodus of all the reasonably well paid jobs south.

[Inspector Knacker]

For the past15 years, the very things that make a town a town have been remorselessly picked off one by one in a slow but relentless ratchet style.
The jobs that accompany them and the jobs that service them go as well, you lose the shops and cafes these people use as well, they're never coming back.
Also, the use of the term 'Cleveland' I find a puzzle. Cleveland field in 1996, is the corpse going to be resurrected still some future date.
Odd that Peterlee warrants a magistrates court, yet we don't?
Just a massive sign to me that the delusional Teesside metropolis's capital ( aka Middlesbrough)) foundations were being laid a while back and places like Hartlepool on the fringes would become dormitory estates. We're feeding their ego. What next to join the migration?

[kevplumb]

empty building right on the kremlin doorstep
I smell another episode of CAB's vision coming up
the question is what's this hub going to be called?
lying ste's jolly hub

[The Great Dictator]

Do we have a bail hostel ?

[kevplumb]

yes have had for many years in various locations

[Land Phil]

50 the Front Seaton Carew must be rresponsible for a dozen crimes a night.

...yes they get arrested and released and repeat.

[kevplumb]

I'm sure there was one in Tankerville Street  and in Grange road

and I know there was one in Burbank street I lived next door
many years ago

[Inspector Knacker]

Will the County Court close as well, if indeed it's still there ?
Good job we have excellent public transport links, as if.