Newcastle City Council

Welcome to the website for the North Jesmond ward

The site includes a wide variety of information about the ward including what's on, local facilities and services, useful contacts, community groups, local meetings and events and how to have your say.  It also provides facts and figures about North Jesmond ward, and links to local key web sites.  the links on the right hand side of the page will help you find what you need.

General information

North Jesmond ward has a number of facilities and services to support the local community. Local facilities include Jesmond Library and Jesmond Swimming Pool which are both located on St Georges Terrace. There are a number of local churches which run activities for various age groups and interests in the local community. Children and young people can use Bells Yard which is a multi use games area with a playground for younger children located on Norham Place. The ward has two main shopping areas, Acorn Road/St Georges Terrace and Brentwood Avenue shopping area. North Jesmond also has a primary school, West Jesmond Primary which is located on Tankerville Terrace.
 

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 and take part in an online survey.

Have your say.Shaping the Future of NewcastleGateshead One Core Strategy and Urban Core Action Plan Consultation.

Gateshead and Newcastle Councils are currently out for consultation on two draft strategic planning documents.  These are the joint One Core Strategy and Urban Core Area Action Plan.

The One Core Strategy sets out the vision, strategic objectives and key policies relating to economy, retail, environment, transport, health, sustainable communities (including new housing provision) and climate change for delivering future development across Gateshead and Newcastle until 2030.

In addition the Urban Core Area Action Plan (UCAAP) will set out the spatial strategy for the future of the urban core of NewcastleGateshead and its function at the heart of the city region. This will be a twenty year strategy for change.

The consultation runs from 4 October to 18 November and comments will be received until 25 November, during this time the Council will be hosting a series of Let’s Talk drop in sessions across the city to provide residents with an opportunity to ask officers questions. A full list of the sessions can be found here (Pdf 510.12kb)

Further details on both plans can be found here along with instructions on how to make comments on the plans.
 

On line 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

 North Jesmond Highways Maintenance

Click here for a ward report for North Jesmond outlining highways schemes from 2010 onwards (opens pdf 1.535 KB).  There is a separate report for a range of works across the whole of the city.  Click here for more details (opens pdf 243.43KB)

Latest North Jesmond Developments

2012 Jesmond Calendar
Jesmond Community Forum’s 2012 Calendar is now available in Jesmond Library and the Jesmond Dene Visitor Centre at Millfield House. Priced at £4 a copy, the calendar contains 12 full colour photographs, a mixture of well-known views (such as the Ouseburn in Jesmond Dene) and unusual features (such as a statue of a lion in the grounds of Jesmond Towers – now Shepherd Towers). All the photographs were taken by Jesmond residents, prize winners in a competition organised by Jesmond Community Forum, with the theme “A Different Angle on Jesmond”.
The winning photograph in the competition, an unusual view of Holy Trinity Church, taken from Benton Bank by Mr Terry Phillips, features on the cover of the calendar, as well as illustrating October. Other images include The Hoppings, Highbury, Newcastle Cricket Club, the model railway in Exhibition Park, St George’s Church Tower from the Dene, and Bees at the new Visitor Centre at Millfield House.
 

Operation Oak funding agreed for 2011/12 academic year

Funding has been secured for the fourth academic year running for extra police patrols to help curb anti-social and nuisance behaviour in North and South Jesmond wards.

This is part of an initiative involving the local neighbourhood policing team, Newcastle City Council officers, local councillors and Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.

North and South Jesmond Ward Committees have contributed £8000 each to the initiative this year. Newcastle University has also committed £8000 and Northumbria University £4000. This will pay for two dedicated police officers to be available to respond to anti social behaviour and noise issues mainly associated with students on three nights per week from 10pm until 4am.

For more information about the scheme from Northumbria Police click on this link. 

Friends of Newcastle Trees (FoNT)

The newly constituted Friends of Newcastle Trees takes over the work of the Newcastle Tree Wardens as set up by the Newcastle City Council Tree Strategy.  Friends of Newcastle Trees Information Sheet (101kb).

Tree Wardens from Friends of Newcastle Trees acts as a 'neighbourhood watch' over the trees where they live, looking out for problems like vandalism, storm damage, disease, dead trees and reporting protected trees being damaged or under threat.  You could also help find places to plant more trees in your area and join in with tree, hedgerow and woodland projects.  To find out more please contact Edwina Symmons on 0191 2778950 email:  newcastletrees@ymail.com

 Sure Start Woodlands Childrens Centre

A new Childrens Centre for North Jesmond, North Heaton and Dene wards has opened on Newton Place in High Heaton. Some of the services that will be delivered from the centre include an early years group, family support, information and resource drop ins, family learning and the childminder network. As well as services being delivered from the main building on Newton Place, they will also be run from other locations within the three wards. To find out more about what is going on at the Woodlands Childrens Centre visit their website.

Heritage

Coal was mined in North Jesmond ward from a very early period. The first records of this date back to 1595. In the 1800's there was a coal mine located at the east end of Fern Avenue.

Jesmond Road was constructed in about 1840 by Mr John Dobson. Osborne Road, from Jesmond Road to Clayton Road was constructed between 1860 and 1870.

A number of old buildings still exist in North Jesmond ward. Jesmond Towers was most recently operated as La Sagesse Convent School but is currently empty. The house has had a number of owners over the years and was also formerly a boys school. St Georges Church which is a grade 1 listed building and dates back to the 1880s is also located in the ward on St Georges Close.

Are you part of a group or organisation with an interest in the local history of North Jesmond? If you have information about the area please contact the Ward Co-ordinator and we will create a local heritage section of this page.