More photos from April 2011

The photo above was taken looking into the site from the tramway/car park side. It shows one of the rollers on site flattening the newly raised land comprised of infill material brought onto the site via the pipeline.

In the last couple of days, the level of the Tesco side of the site must have been raised by about a metre, which is a scary thought, just thinking how quickly the work is progressing on site. In the photo above, you can see the new level of the regeneration site behind the trees, running through the middle of the photo from left to right. You can also make out the new level by looking at the roller in the background in the centre of the photo.

The photo above is looking onto the Tesco area from the south, close to Harbor road. Unlike before, the lagoons are becoming less and less visible as the land across the site is raised with the infill material.

This is one of the countless amount of dumper trucks unloading infill material onto different parts of the site ready to be rolled down and flattened.

The photo above was taken looking through a lens-size gap in the south western gate of the regeneration site. This is a view that I have photographed at different stages during the project, and is changing all of the time. If the plans drawn out are correct, this view will eventually be of the south side of the Tesco car park along with the Harbor road pedestrian entrance to the store.

Rollers flattening Infill material placed on 'Tesco Footprint' 13/04/11

Photos from April 2011

Above is a view from the Viewing platform on site looking towards the town centre and over the area where Tesco will stand come November 2011. Everything is flat, waiting to be raised with infill material, which really gives you a sense of scale of just this part of the regeneration site.

The photo above shows that the pipeline over Harbor road has now been covered in some kind of material to try to reduce the noise level as the infill material travels through it.

Above is one of the many diggers onsite loading up dumper trucks with infill material to be transported around to different parts of the site.

A convoy of dumper trucks traveling up the infill pile, ready to load up with some more.

Workmen keeping a close eye on proceedings on the site.

A view over the fence from the car park side of the site, where there are still lots of dormant machines and also still one of the holiday camp lights on the right of the image, that hasn't yet been taken down.

Above is a panoramic photo I took on the Tesco site with my iphone, to see it bigger, click on the image.

I managed to get this photo above of basically the area where the Tesco store will stand once built, the guys on site were preparing the area so that infill material can be put on top of it when ready.

 Above are some pipes with work going on in the lagoons in the eastern side of the regeneration site.

This photo was taken looking south from the skatepark side of the site, and by the looks of it, down the middle on the bottom half, they are laying down material, possibly so that the infill material can be put on top of that.

This is a shot next to the tram line with the Tesco site out of focus in the background.

The above photo was taken from Beer by Pecorama on the 8th April as the Oranje dredger had just arrived at Seaton from South Wales with a new load of infill material.

Above is a view of Seaton from Beer head that I shot, and if you look at it, you can see the pipelines and lagoons in the photo clearly. Previous photos I have taken in the past years, have just shown trees covering that area.

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 Looking towards the back of the site, where diggers etc are moving around some of the infill material.

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The middle of the three manmade lagoons, which looks as if it has been half filled with water.

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One of the pipeline connections on the site seems to have sprung a leak! probably due to the high pressure of all of the material that is traveling through the pipeline.

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Looking across the site from the eastern side to the west towards the town centre.

Photos taken late March 2011

Below are photos I have taken on and around the regeneration site between the 20th and the end of March 2011. 

The photo above is of the first wave of infill material being pumped into one of the lagoons on the site.

This is the dredger that will assist in the pumping of the infill material to the site.

Above is where the pipeline is located on Seaton beach with the dredger in the distance 1500m out to the right of the photo.

Taken looking down onto the site, you can see that fencing has now been erected on the western edge of the site, so from now on, I will find more creative ways of taking photos on this side of the site!

All sorts of debris behind the fence on the southern side of the regeneration site.

Its sunday, so no work commences on the site, which means that all of the vehicles are parked up together.

The sound of infill

This video was taken on my Iphone, just to demonstrate the sound of the water that is currently being pumped through the pipes.

Seaton Regeneration area 4/3/11 Video

Just A quick video I made on the 4th of march with my iphone. I will probably do more videos as work on the site progresses.

March 2011

This month, work seems to be at full speed on the site, getting it ready for the infill process, with trees, lights, and concrete cleared off of the site over the previous month and the infill settlement lagoon walls constructed in the centre of the site.

This is another photo taken on my iphone showing a digger creating a channel on the beach, presumably to bury some pipe that will travel from the beach to the boat that will be moored offshore to allow the infill process to begin.

Below is a quick photo I took using my iphone from Seaton hole as I was walking into Seaton, it is of one of the four boats that were off shore preparing for something to do with the pipeline. I will get some clearer photos on my SLR camera after the weekend as I will be photographing the London Olympic site, one of my other regeneration photo projects.

This photo was taken the day that the main pipeline bridge was installed over the road linking Seaton and Axmouth.

Another photo taken on my iphone on Grizzly run day, this one is peering through a gap in the fence of the racal site, where the second pipe bridge waits to be lifted into place the following day (14th March), where the landscape will look a lot different while the infill work is done.

The photo below was taken on my iphone on the day of the Grizzly run, where one of the pipeline bridges have already been lifted into place between the regeneration site and the former Racal/station site. It is visible easily from the tramway side of the site due to being 5 metres high.

Outside the main site entrance, more signs have appeared with this one being one of the most obvious to passers by with the Tesco logo on it, giving people a phone number if they have queries about the site.

The photo below is of one of the numerous trucks on site carrying rubble etc from one part of the site to another part of the site.

The photo below was taken looking through the tramway side of the regeneration site using a telephoto lens so that I could get a closer view of some of the work on site.

This image was taken from the same spot as a lot of older photos I have taken of the area. It is at the south western entrance opposite the bus depot, where I managed to fit the camera lens into a gap in between the gate and the perimeter fence. Even half a month ago, you could see the access road running down the centre of the photo, but as the work has progressed, it has disappeared, with only the curb giving signs that it was there. At the back of the photo is the southern wall of the infill settlement lagoon.

The two photographs below show the tramway side of the site, which now looks different due to the trees lining this side being cut down, so there is a clear view a large majority of the work going on on site.

With this photo, also taken from the beach, you can see the site office etc, but you can also make out the infill settlement lagoon that has been constructed over the last few weeks, to contain all of the infill material, once that process gets going.

The photo below was taken from the esplanade, looking through one of the gaps in buildings and I saw the frame filled with layer upon layer of diggers, just showing how busy the site is, even in this small cross section of it.

Below is another over the fence shot with my compact camera, where the gate to the south western entrance is.

The photo below was taken at the beginning of the month using my compact camera attatched to a tripod, so that I could lift the camera over the perimeter fence, to get a better view of what was happening on site.