In May 2024 voters in NE England will choose a new NE Mayor as part of the region’s North East devolution deal, with new powers over transport, housing and skills. In this blog we look at the candidates' manifestos to see what they are promising. Read more [...] NE Mayor Elections 2 May 2024
In May 2024 voters in NE England will choose a new NE Mayor as part of the region’s North East devolution deal, with new powers over transport, housing and skills. In this blog we look at the candidates' manifestos to see what they are promising. Read more [...] 
Newcastle City Council recently consulted on the replacement to the current “Local Plan”. This is SPACE for Gosforth's response. 
Newcastle City Council has launched a consultation on the replacement to the current "Local Plan". You can comment on CommonPlace up to 6 March 2024. 
This is our fifth annual blog sharing local media stories about people killed or injured in road traffic collisions in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2023. In 2023 there were 5 fatalities, 91 serious injuries and 473 slight injuries on Newcastle’s roads, an average of 11 people injured every week. 
In May 2024 voters in NE England will choose a new NE Mayor as part of the region's North East devolution deal, with new powers over transport, housing and skills. This will mean that, for the first time since bus deregulation in 1986, there will be control over our public transport by local - and locally accountable - politicians. 
In March 2023, Newcastle City Council announced that it would trial a new layout on Gosforth High Street using an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO), with a consultation to last the first six months of the eighteen month order. This blog is to share SPACE for Gosforth’s response to that consultation. 
In August we had a team walk along Gosforth High Street to see if we could come up with some ideas for what could be tried out fairly cheaply as part of the current trial arrangements. Below are 10 ideas, which we hope Newcastle City Council will consider. 
This is SPACE for Gosforth's seventh annual pollution blog covering official air quality monitoring in Newcastle upon Tyne. In all seven years, air pollution in Newcastle has exceeded legal limits. In 2022, the highest reading was 92μg/m3, over double the limit. 
Gosforth High Street is our most important local destination in Gosforth. We want the shops to be successful and, as we set out in our previous blog, an important part of that is enabling people to get to and move around Gosforth High Street safely. 
Gosforth High Street has been designed like a bypass rather than a shopping destination. If you want a better, more ambitious, plan for Gosforth High Street, you need to respond to the Council's consultation ASAP.