A Gosforth school is set to become the second in Newcastle to forbid parents from parking outside its gates.
After the launch of the city’s first School Street project at Hotspur Primary in Heaton earlier this month, Grange First School is now set to follow suit. The scheme bans vehicles from roads around the school at busy pick-up and drop-off times, in an effort to get parents to leave their cars at home for the school run and make the area safer and less polluted for children.
Restrictions will be in force around Grange First School from Friday, July 15, and are being introduced for an initial 18-month spell. It means that traffic will be blocked from Norham Road between 8am and 9.30am on school day mornings and between 2.30pm and 4pm on school day afternoons, though residents and disabled blue badge holders will still have access.
