LORD HASTINGS' ENTERPRISE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 31 July 1911, Page 3

LORD HASTINGS' ENTERPRISE

An important scheme of seaside development at Hartley, on the Northumberland coast, has been undertaken by Lord Hastings. His lordship's counsel, at a public inquiry at. Seaton Delaval, stated that Lord Hastings had made arrangements to turn Hartley into a high-class residental suburb. He had signed an agreement by which the North-Eastern Railway Company would construct a railway between Monkseaton and Seaton Sluice, Lord Hastings to - pay two-thirds of the interest on the capital expended by the company, that interest to be reduced £2 annually for each house built in Hartley. Lord Hastings is also prepared to hand over the sea front for an esplanade, provided the new urban council maintain it for the benefit of the general public.