Accessible from the Trans Pennine Trail to the south of the power station, there are a couple of small areas of grass just off the path. Watch out for overhead power lines especially on the south west of the power station.
It’s an Indian restaurant now and it’s open. There’s a play area behind the place that seems to usually be deserted. Even had a handy big massive cardboard piece of crap left on it which was useful for takeoff and landing.
It was running on biomass the last few years before it was decommissioned so cleaner than coal for sure.
If what you say is true they’re probably panicking because of the upcoming decommission of nuclear plants like Hartlepool without any replacement generation capacity because we’ve squandered a lot of time on replacing fossil fuel plants with nuclear etc.
It’ll take some work to get going again though because there’s already been vandalism and copper theft from the site.
It was coal and biomass mix there were coal stocks in the back last year and depends on we’re copper has been robbed from . They are supposed to have security and teams in it . lol if biomass is coming From USA on the most polluting transport on earth cargo ships you might as well burn coal