Open activities
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School Keep Clear Cameras - Improving Safety Outside Our Schools
📢 School Safety Camera Enforcement – Coming September 2025 South Tyneside Council is introducing camera enforcement outside selected schools to improve road safety and protect children. We’re reaching out to local schools, residents, and guardians to share details of the scheme and invite...
Closes 31 December 2025
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Gainsborough Avenue, South Shields - Proposed parking restrictions
South Tyneside Council have been made aware of problems persisting in the Gainsborough Avenue area, South Shields particularly with vehicles parking infront of driveways at school pick up and drop off periods this leading to residents being unable to access/egress from driveways. It has also been...
Closes 2 January 2026
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Foreshore Area Parking Proposals
South Tyneside Council’s Traffic and Road Safety Team is seeking feedback from residents regarding a proposal to introduce permit parking in the streets surrounding the Foreshore area in South Shields. During the summer months, this area becomes particularly busy, and parking demand...
Closes 5 January 2026
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Monkton Lane, Jarrow Proposed Crossing
South Tyneside Councils Road Safety Department are consulting on a proposed road safety scheme in your area. As part of South Tyneside Council’s ongoing commitment to create a safer environment for all highway users, we propose to make an improvement on Monkton Lane, Jarrow. The...
Closes 12 January 2026
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Highcroft Park Allotment Access, Whitburn
As part of South Tyneside Council’s ongoing commitments to create a safer environment for all highway users, it is proposed to restrict the access at Highcroft Park Allotments and prevent through traffic from Lizard Lane to Highcroft Park. Currently, there is a through route between...
Closes 1 February 2026
Closed activities
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Monkton Lane, Jarrow Traffic Calming - Formal Consultation
South Tyneside Councils Road Safety Department are consulting on a proposed crossing and traffic calming scheme in your area. We have had a number of enquiries from residents and general road users requesting further traffic calming measures on Monkton Lane, Jarrow. ...
Closed 29 December 2025
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Lizard Lane area, Whitburn - Proposed Traffic Calming Revisions
The Road Safety team has identified ongoing concerns regarding vehicle speeds on Lizard Lane, particularly near the allotment access south of Highcroft Park. Multiple reports indicate that drivers are frequently exceeding safe speeds along this section, despite the presence of...
Closed 24 December 2025
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Tree and Woodland Policy Online Consultation and Questionnaire
Trees are important to our environment, health, and communities. South Tyneside Council looks after trees on land it owns or manages. This policy explains how we care for these trees, why they matter, and how we keep people safe. We look after around 300 hectares of tree canopy. This...
Closed 5 December 2025
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St Marys Area - Formal Consultation
South Tyneside Council's Traffic and Road Safety Team (STC) is seeking feedback from residents on a proposal to implement junction protection and crossing improvements around the St Marys area. As part of STC's ongoing commitment to creating a safer environment for all highway users, the...
Closed 25 November 2025
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Mill Dene View area, Jarrow - Proposed extension of parking restrictions
South Tyneside Council has been made aware of concerns regarding vehicles parking in close proximity to the end of the existing double yellow line restrictions. This behaviour is reported to significantly reduce visibility for drivers entering or exiting driveways and increases the risk of head-on...
Closed 24 November 2025
We asked, you said, we did
Below are outcomes for some of the issues we've recently asked about. See all outcomes
We asked
If you would be in favour of a Controlled Parking Zone within Westoe
You said
The consultation results show that many residents in the Westoe area are not in favour of progressing with the introduction of a CPZ. The proportion of respondents who believe it would negatively affect the area significantly outweighs those who view it positively, and the tone of the written feedback reflects a general lack of community support.
Customers visiting pubs and restaurants received a lot of criticism. With complaints of vehicles being left over night and sometimes all weekend. However, It also highlight that levels of car ownership in Westoe appear to be higher than expected. According to the 2021 census 67.2% of households in South Tyneside own at least one car compared to 78% nationally. But the figures taken from this consultation show 85% of responders own one car or more.
We did
Given the low ratio of available parking space to homes and the high levels of car ownership and the current levels of opposition from the local community. No further action will be taken on the introduction of a Controlled Parking Zone in the Westoe area at this time. Should parking pressures change in the future, or should there be a shift in community sentiment, the issue can be revisited with a more detailed proposal.
We asked
We proposed to remove a short section of parking restriction to allow parking outside the church.
You said
residents and regular users of the road felt that this would result in obstructions ti their driveways and result in congestion.
We did
We acknowleded those comments and felt that we should not proceed with the scheme at this time.
We asked
We proposed to ammend the existing parking restrictions and dparking bays to allow larger vehicels to manouvre through this junction.
You said
Nobody objected.
We did
The existing restrictions will be adjusted to allow larger vehicels to manouvre through this junction. The restrictions will be operational on 09/12/24