Councillors will meet this week to discuss what to do with a delapidated riverside jetty.
The wooden jetty, at Hebburn Riverside Park, is in a dangerous state and has remained closed to the public on health and safety grounds until a detailed inspection was carried out.
The inspection has now been completed, and members of Hebburn Community Area forum (CAF) will be given a report on the condition of the jetty and will be presented with options for its future.
Experts found that although the main structural piles and bracing timbers are in a good enough condition, the decking planks and supporting timbers are rotten beyond repair and must be replaced.
South Tyneside councillor and Hebburn CAF member Eddie McAtominey is calling for its complete restoration.
Members of the CAF will have to decide at their meeting on Wednesday whether they should recommend the jetty restoration scheme to the cabinet.
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