The Latest Breaking News from Blackett Street

Millions more could be pumped into Grainger Market revamp as council tries to avoid losing Levelling Up cash

Money that was earmarked for a major redesign of both Old Eldon Square and Blackett Street is set to be diverted to revamping the public space around the Grainger Market

Chronicle Live · Apr 12, 2023

Vans and North Face close in Newcastle city centre but one brand hints at revamped store

Vans has closed for good on Blackett Street just five years after opening in the city centre

Chronicle Live · Feb 8, 2023

Newcastle's Northern Goldsmiths - the popular city-centre meeting place is 130 this year

Opened in 1892, the jeweller Northern Goldsmiths on the corner of Blackett Street and Pilgrim Street is one of Newcastle's best-known locations and favourite meeting places

Chronicle Live · Dec 18, 2022

See a woman ride down Blackett Street on a scooter with a poodle

DJ Elliot Adamson spotted the strange scene when he was on his way back from the shops

Chronicle Live · Jul 29, 2022

Blackett Street pedestrianisation bid still up in the air with public inquiry yet to be triggered

City transport bosses are yet to ask the Planning Inspectorate to arrange a hearing that will decide the street's future, two months after councillors gave approval to do so

Chronicle Live · Jun 3, 2022

What Newcastle shoppers and businesses think about plans to pave over Old Eldon Square in £50m redesign of city centre

Grass will be replaced by hard surfaces, and seats, fountains, and planters will be added while Blackett Street will be pedestrianised

Chronicle Live · Mar 25, 2022

Newcastle's Hippy Green could be paved over in huge plans for £50m redesign of city centre

Council bosses have revealed the first concept designs of how a transformed Old Eldon Square might look – with grass making way for paving, planters, and fountains

Chronicle Live · Mar 24, 2022

Blackett Street bus ban inquiry looms as council boss warns city must not 'lapse into obscurity'

A planning inspector is set to decide whether to allow one of Newcastle city centre's busiest streets to become a traffic-free zone, with a hearing expected later this year

Chronicle Live · Mar 22, 2022

A picture postcard view of Blackett Street, Newcastle - and banana-yellow buses

Blackett Street was built between 1824 and 1826 by Richard Grainger as he carried out his ambitious project of totally reshaping Newcastle’s town centre

Chronicle Live · Mar 1, 2022

'It's a threat' - Tyneside Irish Centre's fears over plan to pedestrianise Newcastle's Blackett Street

The secretary of Tyneside Irish Centre has said pedestrianising Blackett Street would have a huge impact on the centre's members

Chronicle Live · Feb 5, 2022