Newcastle City Council

Welcome to your Fawdon Ward 'Where I Live' webpage

This site gives you the opportunity to 'have your say' and find out what is going on in your local area. By using the links on the right hand side of this page you can find out what's going on in your area including meetings and events and information on community groups.

Fawdon Ward Committee

The next Fawdon Ward Committee will be held at 6.30pm on Tuesday 22 May, North Fawdon Primary School, Brotherlee Road, Fawdon.
For further details contact the Fawdon Communities Officer, Christine Earl.
Phone: 277 3569
E-mail: christine.earl@newcastle.gov.uk

Volunteers needed at Fawdon Community Centre

Fawdon Community Centre is based on Fawdon Park Road and offers a range of activities for the local community. The Centre relies on volunteers to help with providing services and to help manage the building. Could you give some of your time to help your local community Centre?

For information about volunteering in Fawdon contact any staff or management committee member of Fawdon Community Centre - phone: 0191 285 2724 or email: fawdoncc@hotmail.co.uk
 

Events

Decent Neighbourhood Standards
 

Every neighbourhood in Newcastle will be brought up to a decent standard under a new set of proposals by the city council.   

The council, with residents, wants to create its own Decent Neighbourhoods Standard to ensure consistently good services in each of the city’s 26 wards, with services such as street cleaning, graffiti removal and bin collection being constantly monitored and improved.

Residents who would like to make their views known should visit http://www.letstalknewcastle.co.uk/consultations/index/13 and take part in an online survey.
 

Secret Bunker: Public Arts Project

An arts project is taking place which will consider the role of the Second World War bunkers in Kenton and Blakelaw in the air defence of the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Team working on the project are keen to hear from people who have personal stories of the bunkers and operations to defend the area. Details of the project can be found at the Secret Bunker North web site.

General information

The Ward has a number of facilities and services to support the local community. These facilities include two parks, Fawdon Park and North Kenton Park. North Kenton Park is home to Kenton Sports Centre which offers a range of sports facilities including a bowling green and pavilion, an all weather pitch, tennis courts and a children’s playground. The North Kenton Veterans Hut is also located next to the bowling green. Local facilities include two small shopping areas, Fawdon Park shops and the North Kenton Shopping Centre which is located on Kirkwood Drive. In addition to the shopping facilities at North Kenton there is a Neighbourhood Customer Service Centre which provides a local contact point for residents to find out what services the council has to offer, you can also obtain advice from a number of agencies here. Two primary schools are situated in the Ward, Regent Farm First and North Fawdon Primary, although children from the Ward attend a range of schools across the area.

Fawdon Ward Initiative

Local school children entered a competition to design a poster that would encourage people to 'PUP' (Pick up Poo) in Fawdon' (Slogan devised by pupil from Mountfield Primary School).

The winning designs were produced by pupils from Mountfield Primary School and North Fawdon Primary School, and these are now appearing on lamp posts and bins in the area.
 

Highways and Traffic Management - Ward Update.

This report (pdf 2.05MB) highlights short, medium and long term traffic management and highways schemes in the ward as well as information on road traffic accidents and utilities work. 
 

Heritage

Fawdon Ward was a mining community with pits in North Kenton, Coxlodge, and Fawdon. The Ward has changed over the years and now provides a home for a number of businesses including the Nestle Factory and Sanofi-Aventis, one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies.

Online map

Use our online map to find your nearest libraries and schools. You can also find out where your nearest recycling site is and find leisure services, such as swimming pools, and heritage information, such as listed buildings and ancient monuments.