Newcastle’s Movement Strategy
Space For Heaton The Council has released a draft of its proposed Movement Strategy, a document that will guide Newcastle’s transport development until 2045 and wants to hear residents’ views on how they…
What’s next for Heaton’s Streets?
The City Council is once again consulting on new proposals for the part of Heaton west of Heaton Road. This follows on from the removal of the low traffic measures…
2024 Local Elections
Following the recent announcement that the low traffic neighbourhood trial in Heaton will be removed this week, we asked the candidates standing in Ouseburn ward if they wanted to share…
Heaton Low Traffic Neighbourhood to be removed
In February 2024, in an article titled “Council Plan sets pathway for Newcastle’s future”, the City Council set out it priorities for 2024-2027. Labour Councillor Nick Kemp, Leader of the…
Will through traffic return to Heaton’s safer streets?
Since October 2022 various trials have been in place to look at how Heaton’s streets can be made better, particularly for people who don’t drive. We have written about what…
How Have Heaton’s Streets Changed?
The latter part of 2022 and early part of 2023 saw a lot of changes to the streets of Heaton. The end of October marked one year since the Safe…
Changes are coming to Heaton’s streets
Almost a year ago we wrote about some changes that were being proposed for the streets between Heaton Park Road and Heaton Road. After a long wait, the changes are…
Safe Heaton
In November 2021 the City Council announced some proposals for trials that would hopefully reduce traffic travelling through Heaton and improve facilities for people walking or cycling. There are numerous…
Heaton air quality monitors now all in one easy to access dashboard
There are a number of air quality monitors placed around Heaton and the data collected by each device can be accessed via the Urban Observatory at Newcastle University. Now, to…
Walking improvements coming to Chillingham Road
The first stage of changes the City Council plan to make following Government guidance on reallocating road space to help social distancing have been announced. Changes are being made to…