Major works to extend a cycle lane in Heaton will not be completed until next year, council chiefs have confirmed.
Staff shortages and “unexpected” disruption caused by utility companies have been blamed for the delays to the Heaton Road project. Controversial plans to extend the area’s cycleway all the way up to the Coast Road were finally signed off by Newcastle City Council last November, having been in the works since 2017.
But it has now emerged that locals will have to wait until 2023 for just the first stage of the scheme to be finished. Heaton Labour councillor Clare Penny-Evans told a council meeting last week that she had been left “quite upset” by the setbacks.
