The Poolie Bunker

Will benefit the Headland...(cough)...which I'm moving to shortly...(cough).
Looks really good.

https://youtu.be/eH-SZFbsdG4?si=9jMFCgD4AgAS9Ctn

Those hotel rooms don't look big enough for you to move into Mutters

Sorry to break your heart but the council, the port authority and Locals campaigned to ban it and the Tory Government overruled them and allowed it to go ahead, kittiwakes are already on the Headland and there’s shit everywhere and it stinks…..
As there’s cliffs to the north and south of Hartlepool where the dwell ….why create an artificial ‘home’ for them.?
What if the kittiwakes are happy on rooftops and don’t want to nest in what looks like a draughty gasometer with two two Victorian urinals below them….you can hardly evict them now can you.
I know someone who was working on the Tyne Bridge refurbishment and the very same birds droppings were a major problem for them..plus the whiff.

Sounds like a cute idea, but …… hope they don’t mind hosing down the lifeboat every other day……

Kittiwakes must be the least deserving protected species on the RSPB's list. There's hundreds of the buggers on the Tyne Bridge too.

I don’t understand why when every council down the East Ciast are kicking off about too many gulls (I actually like them) why has some body got megabucks to build the biggest bird toilet to date…?
Also, what if the local gulls decide they want it instead….or the Kittiwakes don’t they won’t exactly be giving out rent books will they..l imagine it will also become the go to destination for the rat and fox ‘community’…..
In a country where people are receiving cuts to their living standards, building folly’s like this is a joke.

There are already some Kittiwakes on the building opposite the Fishermans (i saw them last night) so we might have a split colony.
But yes Snowy you are right as some of the rock hard poolie Herringgulls (or other gulls) might just claim a spot leaving the Kittiwakes to annoy the Headland residents.
For clarity the hotel is at Middleton and to get close you need to go on the big Middleton sands.

surely if the council tell em to use it they will all comply.

Regarding Middleton, getting access is difficult now with the Freeport status, I was discussing this yesterday with a friend who had business at the lifeboat station and told it was a problem getting in there without paperwork.

bring back the ferry to claim independance coming over from the headland.

When I worked at Heerema there were loads of seagull nesting, as they are protected they couldn’t remove the nests, the buggers used to keep you awake when you were trying to get your head down when you were doing a night shift.

I like that Jamie, I know the feeling.

Will it have a duty free shop?

need farage up here quickly to identify our own birds first before we start to knock any incomers.