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Newcastle Civic Centre, Haymarket. Haymarket is the northern edge of the city centre bordered by Spital Tongues and Jesmond to the north west and north east respectively. It is the location of Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Haymarket bus station and the City Pool, and is mainly a business area.
Newcastle city centre, 1917, with St James' Park football ground above and left of centre. Newcastle opened its first lunatic asylum in 1767. [32] The asylum catered for people from the counties of Newcastle, Durham and Northumberland. [32] The Newcastle Eccentrics of the 19th century were a
Newcastle City Council granted planning permission in 2017 for an 82-metre-tall (269 ft) residential block to be called Hadrian's Tower on Rutherford Street in Newcastle city centre, [2] which became the new tallest on its completion in 2020.
Newcastle Civic Centre is a municipal building in the Haymarket area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. [1] Designed by George Kenyon , [ 2 ] the centre was built for Newcastle City Council in 1967 and formally opened by King Olav V of Norway on 14 November 1968. [ 3 ]
[8] [9] Newcastle's city status was transferred to the enlarged borough at the same time. [10] From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district-level ...
Newcastle Civic Centre, 1969. The Mansion House was gifted to the city in 1953, [60] and Newcastle City Council moved to the new Newcastle Civic Centre in 1968. [61] As heavy industries declined in the second half of the 20th century, large sections of the city centre were demolished along with many areas of slum housing.
This category contains pages about the neighbourhoods and electoral wards of Newcastle upon Tyne. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Blakelaw is an electoral ward situated in the West End of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England. The population of the ward is 11,186, which is 4.6% of the city's population. Car ownership in the area is 50.6%: this is lower than the city average of 54.7%, increasing to 11,507 at the 2011 Census. [1]