The following series of questions we believe are essential to how people move around safely in our community.  This is our request:

Congratulations on being selected as a candidate for the Newcastle Central constituency.

SPACE for Gosforth is a volunteer led constituted community group which aims to promote a healthy, liveable, accessible and safe neighbourhood, where:
1. Walking and cycling are safe, practical and attractive travel options for residents of all ages and abilities.
2. Streets are easier and safer to navigate for residents or visitors with limited mobility and for residents or visitors with disabilities or conditions for whom travel is a challenge.
3. There is good walking and cycling access to local community destinations including schools, shops, medical centres, work-places and transport hubs.
4. Streets are valued as places where people live, meet and socialise, and not just for travelling through.
5. The negative consequences of excessive vehicle traffic including injury and illness from road traffic collisions, air pollution, community severance, noise pollution and delays are minimised.

We would like to hear your views on our aims, whether you support them and, if so, what would you do to help achieve them?

In addition, our members would like to hear your response to the following:
1. What is your position on increasing the proportion of the transport budget spent on walking & cycling?
2. Do you see better infrastructure for active travel as a priority in our area?
3. How would you champion walking and cycling in your role as a Member of Parliament, if elected?
4. What do you think the main barriers to active travel are locally, and how should they be solved?
5. How would you propose to reduce air pollution in our constituency (a defined Air Quality Management Area) and what would you do to lead the change?

We would very much welcome your response to the above questions and please feel free to contribute to debate on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/space.gosforth/

SPACE has emailed the following candidates:

Newcastle Central

• Conservative Party: Steve Kyte
• Green Party: Peter Thomson
• Labour Party: Chi Onwurah
• Liberal Democrats: Nick Cott
• UKIP: candidate to be announced

Newcastle North

• Conservative Party: Duncan Crute
• Green Party: Alison Whalley
• Labour Party: Catherine McKinnell
• Liberal Democrats: Anita Lower
• UKIP: candidate to be announced

The deadline for the delivery of nomination papers to the Returning Officer is Thursday 11 May 2017 at 4pm.  We will email any new candidates when they are published.

We will publish responses from candidates as soon as we receive them.

Special thanks to the Scottish campaign “I walk I cycle I vote” for helping with the succinct questions and have also published a briefing sheet which has many pieces of information that are appropriate for the rest of the UK and Gosforth.

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