Parents will be blocked from picking up their children outside the gates of a Newcastle school, after long-delayed plans to boost walking and cycling were finally confirmed.
City transport chiefs have announced that streets around Hotspur Primary School, in Heaton, will be shut at pick-up and drop-off times in a bid to make the area safer for youngsters. The ‘School Streets’ scheme will begin on June 13 and run for an initial 18 months, having initially been slated to start 12 months earlier.
11 schools across the city were due to be taking part in the trials, which have been repeatedly delayed since first being announced by Newcastle City Council in March 2021. The authority confirmed that it does still intend to impose traffic bans outside schools other than Hotspur and said details will emerge “in due course”.
