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Regis Business Park, Grace Road, SHEERNESS, ME12 1HA

Approaching the footbridge, over the line, where I was standing. To the train's left are some of the overgrown railway tracks of the Thamesteel site. The company voluntarily entered administration on 25 January 2012 several weeks after halting production at its plant. Around 350 workers were made redundant as a result of the move with just 50 kept on to maintain the plant. On 8 June 2012, it was announced that Thamesteel had been sold out of administration to a new company owned by Al-Tuwairqi Group (ATG), joint administrators for the Sheerness steel producer http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/sheerness-steel-plant-to-restart-as-thamesteel-exits-administration/1012865.article See https://www.bcd-urbex.com/thamesteel-steel-works-sheerness-uk/ for a history of the site.

As seen from a footbridge over the Sheerness to Sittingbourne railway line. Thamesteel voluntarily entered administration on 25 January 2012 several weeks after halting production at its plant. Around 350 workers were made redundant as a result of the move with just 50 kept on to maintain the plant. On 8 June 2012, it was announced that Thamesteel had been sold out of administration to a new company owned by Al-Tuwairqi Group (ATG), joint administrators for the Sheerness steel producer http://processengineering.theengineer.co.uk/sheerness-steel-plant-to-restart-as-thamesteel-exits-administration/1012865.article See https://www.bcd-urbex.com/thamesteel-steel-works-sheerness-uk/ for a history of the site.

Planning permission was granted by Swale Borough Council under application number 16/501726/FULL for “change of use from B2 industrial use in the form of redundant steelworks to port related uses (sui generis) including demolition of buildings (except for the former military hospital, former fitness centre, former billet packing building, former stores and stores maintenance building and part of main former Thamesteel building), construction of new paved surfaces and a new vehicle access and bridge spanning the A249 to the existing port to the west, reconfiguration of railhead, boundary treatment and landscaping and associated works”. This image shows this part of the Image almost a year ago. It has since become a Image

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On the other side of the road, the ground has been divided up, with lengths of white polythene attached to wooden posts. This could indicate that the site is going to be developed sometime in the future.

Planning permission was granted by Swale Borough Council under application number 16/506143/FULL for “10 x 2MW standby generators with ancillary structures including a DNO metering station, transformer compound, switch room, store room and oil storage tanks. The location was described as land at Thamesteel, Brielle Way. It appears that the work is still ongoing on the site. This image shows the location when it was a Image

I was standing on a public footpath, that crosses the railway here, looking towards the railway line from Sheerness to the mainland, which this railway joins a little way ahead.