Photos taken June 2011 (leveling the site)

Here are photos that have been taken on and around the regeneration site in the first half of June 2011, as it is all leveled out to the required 2 metres, which will then make the land ready for building work on the Tesco development to begin.

Here is a link to a very large panoramic photo that I have taken of the Tesco site, that I am unable to upload here, It may take a few seconds to load up fully as it is full resoloution. All you need to do on it is scroll down and across to view more of the panorama!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alextm/5814960461/sizes/o/in/photostream

The photo above was taken looking down onto the south side of the site, close to where the new road junction will be built. The area off to the left will be comprised of the car park and the Tesco store.

This photo above shows dumper truck tracks in the sand after they had just parked up for the night just before 8pm (the time they are currently allowed to work until) with small mounds of infill still waiting to be moved around the site.

Here you see a dumper truck dropping off a load of Manure into the middle of the site, ready to be distributed around the edges of the banks of infill around the site.

In the middle of this photo above is the area where the Tesco store will be built with the bank covered in manure in the foreground. A bit smelly at the moment, but that will soon wear off.

The photo above was taken looking through the south western gate on the site. A location where I have shot numerous photos from in the past, to show how this particular area has changed. Running through the middle of the photo used to be the access road to the nursery on site before the work began at the start of this year. In a few months time, this area will form the car park for the Tesco store, with the petrol station further north.

Above is a small hive of activity in the middle of the site, where some of the last surcharge infill is being shifted ready for distribution around the site.

The photo above was taken from the south edge of the site, looking along the area where the Tesco store will be in a few months time.

The panoramic photo I took above, shows the area, where the Tesco store will be once building work is completed, this is the final height of the land which will start to be built on within the next few weeks.

The Panoramic photo above was made up of 6 photos I have stitched together. It was taken looking to where the back of the store will be and if you click on the photo to enlarge it, basically the flat area is the store footprint, where building work will begin in the next few weeks.

This photo was taken from the south of the site looking northwards. The area in the centre of the image from middle to bottom, will be where the eastern facing wall of the Tesco store will be, with the car park on the right hand side (where the diggers etc. are) and the fuel station further north.

Above is one of the excavators on site loading up one of the dumpers with some infill material to be transported elsewhere on the site.

The photo above was taken through the gap in the south west gate on the site. A spot I have photographed the site from since 2008. Through the centre (and 2 metres down!) would be where one of the access roads was in the holiday camp, lined with the retro style lights and weathered trees and bushes. In 6 months from now, this area will form the store car park.

This photo is just a simple view looking from south to north across the area of land where the Tesco store will be.

The above photo was looking into the Tesco area of the site from the Underfleet car park, where you can clearly see how much lower the ground level is, compared to almost the height of the overhead cables a few weeks ago.

The photo above was just quickly taken with my iphone, while walking past the site. The view here is the leveled area where the store will sit, with the Underfleet car park fence off to the left of the photo. This is one of the areas I will return to during the building work, as it should provide a clear view of the store construction over the next few months.