DEVELOPERS behind a key Poole regeneration site have come up with a name reflecting its history – Carter’s Quay.

Inland Homes is to consult residents on the name for the former nine-acre Pilkington Tiles site, formerly Carter Tiles, off Blandford Road, Hamworthy.

And they are proposing that the new road linking Blandford Road with Rigler Road, skirting the former power station site, should be called Electric Road.

A questionnaire at a public exhibition of new proposals will ask Hamworthy residents if they like the two names.

Inland Homes feels Carter’s Quay is appropriate since the site has a long history of being connected to the tile company, the Carter family endowed almshouses in Hamworthy at the turn of the last century and the senior school bears its name.

Until summer 2010 the site was occupied by Britain’s second largest ceramic tile manufacturer, but when Pilkington’s Group Plc went into administration, the factory was closed.

Residents can give their views at the exhibitions at St Michael’s Church Centre in Blandford Road today, Thursday, from 4pm to 8pm and on Saturday June 4 from 11am to 4pm.

Three previous displays of initial ideas for the site attracted nearly 500 residents keen to see the proposals and give their views.

Residents said then they would like to have waterfront access, a good mix of family houses with gardens as well as apartments, safe streets which are child and pedestrian friendly, employment and adequate car and cycle parking.

“Clearly the people of Hamworthy and Poole are very proud of their heritage and want to play a full and active part in the regeneration,” said Mark Gilpin, Inland Homes planning director, who is in charge of the project.

Meetings have been held with residents’ associations, amenity groups, Poole council officer and members.

“With the Twin Sails Bridge opening next year, we aim to submit a planning application later this year so that construction on the site can begin in 2012,” said Mr Gilpin