Newcastle Great Park

About Newcastle Great Park

Newcastle Great Park (NGP) is located three miles north west of Image of Leaves Newcastle City Centre, close to the A1 road. It is a major development with land allocated for

Business Park
Housing
Local Centre
Primary School
Community Facilities
Open Space
Play Areas and Outdoor Sport

The scheme is being delivered by the Great Park Consortium, which includes the house builders Persimmon Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Charles Church. Parts of the development have also been built by Barratt and Bryant.

The early phases of the housing Photograph of the Greenside Development development, known as Warkworth Woods and Melbury are almost complete. The next phase Greenside, to the north of Kingston Park is also well underway.

Plan of the Greenside development when completed. (pdf 2.63mb).

The largest phase of housing development is being planned to the west of the A1 road, along with the local centre. Around 2500 homes are proposed to be built in total.

Sage and the Primary Care Trust are located at the Great Park on the business park.

For more information on the Great Park go to www.newcastlegreatpark.com. We also have more information in the related pages section on the right handside of the screen.

Welcome to our latest newsletter (pdf 703 kb) we hope you enjoy reading it.

Newcastle Great Park Co-ordinator

Photograph of Sue Wannop Sue Wannop is the Newcastle Great Park Co-ordinator. Her job is to make sure that as the population grows, people living on the Great Park are able to get involved in its future planning.

You can contact Sue by

phone: 0191 277 3536
email: sue.wannop@newcastle.gov.uk or great.park@newcastle.gov.uk
post: Room 23, Atkinson House, Cypress Avenue, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9JJ

How can you get involved

Events

Newcastle Great Park Update Event

Our second update event took place at St. Aidan's Church, Brunton Park on the 3rd June 2008. The event was organised to keep you informed on the Newcastle Great Parks future plans.

A range of officers were there from Newcastle City Council, the Consortium and partner organisations. They include:

The Consortium with their ideas for the town centre and to answer questions about the Newcastle Great Park
Planners to talk about current planning proposals
School Planning Team to talk about the new school and tell you how to apply for places
Transport and Travel Officers
Highways Adoptions Officer
Leisure Services to talk about proposals for community facilities on the Great Park
Newcastle City Council Environment Team
Police
The Environment Agency

Feedback from issues raise at the event are included in the latest newsletter. If you want to know more about the event you can speak to Sue Wannop on 0191 277 3536 or you can email: great.park@newcastle.gov.uk

Community Fund

We are launching a new exciting way to spend the Newcastle Great Park Community fund. It is called Udecide.

What is the community fund?

It is a small grant aid budget of £25,000 for the first year which is going to be used to fund a wide range of community activities that will benefit the residents of the Newcastle Great Park. Grants between £250 and £3000 are available.

It is unlike other grant aid budgets as it is you the residents of the Newcastle Great Park, who will decide which projects will receive the grants.

What type of activities can be supported by the community fund?

We are looking for projects that will benefit the residents of the Newcastle Great Park. This means that a wide range of activities will be considered. Priorities identified by residents in research carried out on the Newcastle Great Park include the following:

1. Green and Safer

Although a lot of issues raised in the research relate to hard and soft landscaping, we are unable to proceed with them at the present time due to the consortium owning the land. We could however support related projects such as: a gardening club, neighbourhood watch, a nature club, a rambling club or composting scheme. You may have other ideas.

2. Community activities

For example the development of a community festival, forming new groups to provide new activities wanted by the local community or expanding services of existing community groups such youth clubs, brownie packs, scout groups an sport clubs.

3. Arts and culture

Examples could include a chess club, music club, writing club, book club, camera club, an arts class, set up a choir.

This is not a definitive list of types of projects we are looking for. If you have any ideas for a different type of community event of project that you believe will bring the community together please contact us an we will be happy to see if we can help make it work.

Remember if you have an idea that may require the use of community space the new Brunton First School may be able to provide facilities. For more information you can contact Gill McKay the head teacher at: gill.mckay@grange.newcastle.sch.uk or phone 0191 266 8659

Udecide Discussion Forum

We now have a discussion forum that you can log on to, register, become a user and find out more about Udecide and all of the projects that have been proposed under the current programme. You can leave a comment, ask a question or make a suggestion which other residents, officers and Councillors can read and respond to. We look forward from you!

How will Udecide work?

Step 1

You decide what projects you would like to see. You come up with the idea(s) to make them happen. Then fill in the project ideas form.

Step 2

All the ideas we receive will be posted on the internet and you can look at them and ask questions or make comments on our online discussion forum.

Step 3

You hear about all of the suggested ideas at a special event (the Grand Voting Event) and you decide which of the ideas you feel are the best to benefit the Newcastle Great Park by means of voting. Children and young people will also be able to vote for projects. Don't worry! We will make sure that you know about the Grand Voting Event.

Step 4

You benefit from the winning ideas when the are put into action.

Who can apply for funding?

Applications are only accepted from 'not for profit organisations'

Anyone living on the Newcastle Great park who would like to form a group.

Any existing community and voluntary groups on or surrounding the Newcastle Great Park as long as it benefits the Great Park residents.

Applications will also be considered from directorates of the Newcastle City Council.

Is there a lot of work involved?

No this is not a big or time consuming commitment, there are support officers waiting to receive your ideas, who can answer all your questions, support you and your ideas through the whole process.

If your idea(s) make it to the Grand Voting Event. we will give support in preparing your ideas for presentation.

What do I do next?

1. Download the ideas form or email sue.wannop@newcastle.gov.uk

2. Look out for our publicity in April and go on line to view the project ideas and post your comments and questions for other residents, organisations and professionals.

For more information call Sue Wannop on 0191 277 3536

Newcastle Great Park Community Fund Ideas Form

Community Panels

The Newcastle Great Park Advisory Committee would like to develop community panels. There will be three panels working on different themes. They include:

Open Spaces i.e. ecology, landscaping, water courses
Transport, accessibility and the town centre
Community facilities i.e. community buildings, play areas and the first school

The community panels will help shape the Newcastle Great Park as it develops to meet the community's needs.

We are now in a position to form the open spaces community panel. The new Ranger lee Rankin will work closely with this panel. If you are interested please let me know. Lee is also keen for children and young people to be involved.

For more information contact Sue Wannop on 0191 277 3536

Planning Applications

Current planning applications for the Newcastle Great Park can be assessed via the Planning Portal, we hope in future to be able to give you a direct link to current applications. Please see the link in the related pages section.