Open activities
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Fellside and Cragside, South Shields
South Tyneside Council’s Road Safety Team are proposing to introduce a scheme in your area. The team were made aware of concerns from residents regarding two-way traffic in your streets due to the parking of vehicles either side of the carriageway. In order to address this, the team...
Closes 30 April 2025
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Boldon Colliery Area 20 Zone and Traffic Calming - Formal Consultation
South Tyneside Councils Road Safety Department are consulting on a proposed traffic calming scheme in your area. In our ongoing efforts to reduce road traffic collisions and improve road safety, South Tyneside Council are proposing to install traffic calming on Hedworth Lane and North Road and...
Closes 5 May 2025
Closed activities
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St Johns Avenue, Hebburn
South Tyneside Council have been alerted, by residents, to problems emerging from St Johns Avenue area, Hebburn at various junctions within the area. When vehicles are parked within 10m of a narrow junction, it reduces forward visibility for both motorists and pedestrians which is a road safety...
Closed 17 March 2025
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Formal Consultation - Edinburgh Road, Jarrow
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 Edinburgh Road, Jarrow. The Road Safety Team would like to install a new Zebra crossing. The crossing has been proposed to improve the safety...
Closed 24 February 2025
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Green Lane, South Shields
South Tyneside Council have been alerted, by residents, to problems emerging from Green Lane area, South Shields at various junctions within the area. When vehicles are parked within 10m of a narrow junction and near a pedestrian crossing, it reduces forward visibility for both motorists and...
Closed 6 February 2025
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Edinburgh Road / Glasgow Road, Jarrow - Proposed Zebra Crossing
South Tyneside Council are writing to resident to gauge their thoughts on a road safety proposal in your area. The school crossing patrol currently managing the crossing point on Edinburgh Road plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety of pedestrians traveling to and from the local...
Closed 10 January 2025
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Whitburn Permit Scheme Review
South Tyneside Council is reaching out to residents participating in the permit parking scheme on the above-mentioned streets. Over the past year, the team has received a significant number of concerns regarding this scheme and as indicated at the time of its implementation, the team...
Closed 2 December 2024
We asked, you said, we did
Below are outcomes for some of the issues we've recently asked about. See all outcomes
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
We asked
We proposed to introduce parking restrictions
You said
The majority of residents were against the proposal highlighting that parking opportunities were limited and there were no alternative parking spaces nearby.
We did
We listened to these concerns and decided not to progress with our proposal at this time. We suggested that residents should work together to make the best use of the available space and we promised to review the situation in six moths time.