Dates for your diary are Tuesday 16th August SPACE Gosforth meeting, Sunday 21st August march on the moor and 24th August public meeting with Gosforth MP and council representatives. Please see earlier posts for details. Please also note that the event on the 24th is by advance booking only via eventbrite. In the late 60s early 70s, oil was cheap, the motor car was king, concrete was the future. Fortunately local residents had a sense of past and could see beyond the short termism of the planners so they protested and won some concessions. "The route of the road was within the Town Moor. This was only possible when alternative areas of that part of Newcastle were given the same protective status as that enjoyed by the Moor, for example allotments and playing fields adjacent to The Great North Road." Does that mean NCC want to take back for development land that was fought for in compensation for unpopular development? Thanks all as ever for the ongoing support. We are into the last week of "engagement". There is still some lack of clarty about the exact process being followed by NCC. There is certainly a lack of joined up thinking evident based on the NCC policy documentation that local residents and local environmental groups have been unearthing. My own bit of research relates to the remarkably similar arguments in the 70s around the Central Motorway (as per quote above) fortunately the plans to carve up the whole of Newcastle with four motorways in total were shelved when the oil crisis hit and once sanity prevailed we got a cutting edge light rail system instead. Just imagine if the planners had spent all the money on motorways and we had no Metro. Hopefully some of the apparent contradictions can be aired (even answered) at the pending events and public meetings. Mike