Pavement parking is a big problem in Heaton.

Add your support to get something done about it. Details below 👇🏻

There's a good route to the city centre from Heaton, but not to schools and hospitals to the north and east.

It's now 10 years since the scheme to improve routes was launched with half the planned changes to Heaton Road being implemented.

Ask election candidates when they will get that finished.

With elections happening soon it's a good time to ask any candidates you speak to what their plans for tackling air pollution in the city are.
A still day yesterday shows the levels that persist.
We can't rely on windy days to blow pollution away from roads and into your house to fix the problem.

A view from the top deck of a bus of a local high street clogged with traffic. There is no cycle infrastructure, cars are parked on the pavements, and the bus is being delayed by a long queue of private cars.

While local councils don't control public transport, they do control the highway network. On the run up to the local elections, ask candidates wanting your vote what they would do to make YOUR;

*️⃣ neighbourhood HEALTHIER 🏡 🌳
*️⃣ active travel journeys SAFER 🚴🏼‍♀️🚶🏽‍♂️
*️⃣ public transport journeys QUICKER 🚍 🚆

That 36km could be extended a bit by finishing of the section of Heaton Road that has already been designed.

A year in the life of a paving slab In January 2026 the Government announced the results of the consultation on pavement parking that took place towards the end of 2020. Anybody who has even a passing interest in being able to get ar…

📅Earlier this year the Government announced local councils would receive new powers to prohibit pavement parking.
🔎We took a look at the damage pavement parking causes in Heaton
🔗 www.spaceforheaton.com/a-year-in-th...
🗣️With elections next month, ask your candidates what they'll do about this.

Cycling is quick, cheap and healthy. More cycling means less traffic congestion, and it's good for the planet. It's good for everybody! Here are three things Newcastle City Council could do to make it better for everyone: Connected network - join together existing cycle lanes and tracks, so the routes are safe and easy for all School streets - keep traffic away from school gates at the start and end of the school day, so its safer for children to travel by bike Shopping locking - every parade of shops should have some bike stands, so you can lock and leave your bike while you go shopping Ask your candidates what they think about these. Let them know how important they are to you, and to your vote.

🗓️On 7th May local elections will be taking place in Newcastle.

📋We have put together three key points that we would like to see parties back in order to improve cycling in the city.

🗣️Ask the candidates you speak to what they will be doing to improve cycling in the city after May.

Traffic Crash Injury 2025 - SPACE for Gosforth In 2025 there were 3 fatalities, 114 serious injuries and 414 slight injuries on Newcastle’s roads, an average of 10 people injured every week.

Our annual blog on traffic crash injury in #Newcastle.

In 2025 there were 3 fatalities, 114 serious injuries and 414 slight injuries on Newcastle’s roads, an average of 10 people injured every week.

This is too high - we need action to create a Safe Pedestrian And Cycling Environment in Newcastle.

English councils to get guidance on designing safer streets for women and girls Local transport minister describes initiative as fundamental issue of fairness in people's ability to walk in their neighbourhoods

A busy morning across TV and radio as we talk about this news from Active Travel England.

Local transport minister, Lilian Greenwood MP will join us at our UK #WalkingSummit this morning to set out this new guidance.

https://lnkd.in/efY9Zv53

Can you help on 26th April? Sign up NOW to HELP forms.gle/MLqGjfv1UbqB...
North Tyneside Kidical Mass..... it's back, before they set the routes need to get an idea of what help will be available. There's cake in it for you.
(either marshalling on the day or helping distribute fliers and posters)

Kidical Mass North Tyneside Kidical Mass North Tyneside. 302 likes · 8 talking about this. Kidical Mass North Tyneside organises family-friendly rides with a message in North Tyneside.

🚨 Kidical Mass is returning to North Tyneside next month.

📅 Put Sunday 26 April at 2pm in your diary.

📢 Follow www.facebook.com/KidicalMassNT for the latest updates.

Fenham Hall Drive: Mythbusters!!!! Newcastle City Council has recently unveiled plans for cycle lanes all the way up Fenham Hall Drive from Two Ball Lonnen to Grandstand Road. They’d provide a safe route to school for young pe…

Our friends at SPACE for Fenham have written an article that addresses some of the points heard in opposition to the proposed changes to Fenham Hall Drive.

space4fenham.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/f...

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 26-02-2026: 24.21. 27-02-2026: 31.18. 28-02-2026: 32.94. 01-03-2026: 29.06. 02-03-2026: 26.37. 03-03-2026: 40.99. 04-03-2026: 40.22.

The pleasant spring weather this week is very welcome, unless you want clean air to breathe near busy roads.

Image shows a section of some plans for a new separated cycle lane on Fenham Hall Drive

📢 The council is proposing changes to Fenham Hall Drive that could see the street becoming much safer for cycling.

✅ Proposals include 1.5km of protected cycle lane and better crossing points.

📖 Read the full details and see all the plans at new.newcastle.gov.uk/travel/impro...

Graph showing car park occupancy.

#NUFC home match tonight.

Still lots of spaces in the Car Parks in town.

The majority of fans must be travelling by means other than the private car?

Thanks to @spaceforheaton.com for the data.

There's no safe level of air pollution.

Traffic Returns Recently, after a long gap,  TADU (Transport Analysis Data Unit) has been updated with traffic count data for 2024 and the start of 2025. This means it’s now it’s possible to see what effect t…

You can find details about changes in traffic on on blog.
www.spaceforheaton.com/traffic-retu...

📉 This street saw a drop of 500 vehicles per day when the Safer Heaton trial scheme was in place.

📈 The scheme was removed, traffic volumes returned.

💥Now drivers are having crashes on the pavement.

It's fortunate there was nobody trying to walk along the pavement at the time.

This street leads directly from Heaton Road where a scheme to make things safer has been half build, despite being designed and consulted on in a process leading back to 2016. Making streets safer for school pupils requires decisions to be made and action taken now with no more decade long delays.

Almost everything could be better here. This should be a street that prioritises people over vehicles. Huge parts of the street are hatched off to make things easier for drivers. There’s nothing that makes things easier for pedestrians and the thousands of people attending the school.

This street passes a school with over 2000 students and prioritises vehicles. People are hemmed in to narrow pavements which are blocked by bus shelters, side roads have fast, sweeping entrances, crossing points have tiny islands, and the cycle lane is narrow, painted and has a rough surface.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 22-01-2026: 21.46. 23-01-2026: 22.27. 24-01-2026: 22.58. 25-01-2026: 16.52. 26-01-2026: 25.35. 27-01-2026: 13.39. 28-01-2026: 42.82.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 22-01-2026: 22.45. 23-01-2026: 21.33. 24-01-2026: 23.04. 25-01-2026: 19.24. 26-01-2026: 35.24. 27-01-2026: 19.37. 28-01-2026: 50.1.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 22-01-2026: 22.38. 23-01-2026: 22.53. 24-01-2026: 22.12. 25-01-2026: 16.74. 26-01-2026: 26.3. 27-01-2026: 12.01. 28-01-2026: 41.41.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 22-01-2026: 38.5. 23-01-2026: 33.85. 24-01-2026: 38.42. 25-01-2026: 47.55. 26-01-2026: 52.81. 27-01-2026: 56.48. 28-01-2026: 86.43.

24h average NO2 readings for Wed 28th Jan 2026
Gosforth: 42.82µg/m³
Coast Road: 50.1µg/m³
Tyne Bridge: 41.41µg/m³
Chillingham Rd School: 86.43µg/m³

https://sensors.spaceforheaton.com

The big winners and losers from Tyne and Wear Metro's new fare cap explained North East mayor Kim McGuinness announced plans on Monday to cap the cost of a Metro journey at £2.50 – but many passengers will still see their fares rise in April

I've gone through the numbers to work out what the new Tyne and Wear Metro £2.50 fare cap will actually mean for you.

Some big savings on longer journeys, but passengers only going 1/2 zones will actually see day ticket prices going up 6-7%.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

This type of vehicle is regularly causing problems on Heaton's streets and there's no sign on anything being done to tackle it.
The first image shows pavement that has been broken by vehicles replaced with concrete to better support them parking on the pavement.

Good news for anybody for cycles along the city stadium cycle path. 👇

A screen capture of the electronic voting results at a meeting of Newcastle City Council showing 22 Yes, 28 No.

At last night's council meeting there was a motion on winter maintenance.
An amendment to 'Investigate gritting those parts of major arterial pedestrian/cycle routes susceptible to freezing' was not passed, as more than half of those councillors present voted against it.

📣 Parents. If cars make your walk or cycle to school feel unsafe, that's not okay.

We need your photos of the school run! The more people can see how awful it is out there - and how unsafe it is for our children - the more power we have. DM pix or tag us in a post.

#streetsforkids #schoolrun

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 02-01-2026: 7.42. 03-01-2026: 7.49. 04-01-2026: 10.83. 05-01-2026: 13.29. 06-01-2026: 27.63. 07-01-2026: 9.19. 08-01-2026: 42.94.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 02-01-2026: 15.48. 03-01-2026: 10.5. 04-01-2026: 20.74. 05-01-2026: 19.55. 06-01-2026: 48. 07-01-2026: 16.02. 08-01-2026: 49.21.

The image is a chart of nitrogen dioxide on specific dates, with the values in micrograms per metre cubed. The data is as follows. 02-01-2026: 12.91. 03-01-2026: 13.87. 04-01-2026: 12.78. 05-01-2026: 22.7. 06-01-2026: 35.45. 07-01-2026: 16.01. 08-01-2026: 54.56.

24h average NO2 readings for Thu 8th Jan 2026
Gosforth: 42.94µg/m³
Coast Road: 49.21µg/m³
Tyne Bridge: 54.56µg/m³

https://sensors.spaceforheaton.com

Big spikes in air pollution readings across the city yesterday.

Can you spare a few minutes to share your views on snow clearance to help Alex's research? 👇