Newcastle City Council

Welcome to your Wingrove 'Where I Live' web pages

This site gives you the opportunity to have your say and find out what’s going on in your local area. By using the links on the right hand side of this page you can find out about local services, key contacts, community groups, volunteering, local meetings and events.

Making Wingrove a greener ward

Greening Wingrove is a project that brings people together to work collectively on improving the environment throughout the ward. This includes making more use of trees, plants, flowers and green arts, and cracking down on litter and refuse. Community involvement is at the heart of this project with local residents and groups monitoring local services and putting forward ideas to improve the local environment.

Communities Living Sustainably Lottery Bid

Greening Wingrove is a community project whose aim is to….make Wingrove Greener!  We’ve been successful in securing a project development grant from the communities living sustainability programme and we have appointed a consultant to pull together the Project Development Plan to bid for up to £1M to see how sustainable we can make our community.

The Worker’s Educational Association (WEA) is the accountable body for this stage of the project.  We have £9,500 to engage organisations or individuals to help us submit our bid by 18th June and additionally to further engage and involve the community.

For more information, please contact Dawn Hodgson, WEA, 21 Portland Terrace, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. NE2 1QQ, dhodgson@wea.org.uk

Greening Wingrove Garden Festival

In May 2011 over 300 people enjoyed the Garden Festival at the Nunsmoor Centre enjoying activities such as making bird and bat boxes, face-painting and planting herb pots. Our festival this year will be on Sunday 10 June, 1pm - 4pm, in the Nunsmoor Centre and Park. Further details will be publicised on these web pages and in the community.

Greening Wingrove Udecide Grand Voting Day - Saturday 18 February 2012

Over 70 local residents and stakeholders came together to hear presentations from 19 local groups about their project ideas to further the aims of the Greening Wingrove initiative. Participants scored the ideas against set criteria and the projects they rated the highest, won a share of the £40,000 on offer.

Find out which projects were successful

Wingrove ward

Click on this map to view the ward boundary (pdf, 2.25MB). 

The Wingrove ward consists of a number of distinct residential areas: Arthur's Hill, Spital Tongues, Wingrove Terraces, Milvain Estate, and the Fenham area from Hadrian Road to Fenham Hall Drive.

L to R: Oxnam Crescent in Spital Tongues, Crossroads at Brighton Grove, Arthur's Hill

The ward benefits from some of the largest and most attractive green and open spaces in the city including the Town Moor, Nuns Moor, Hunter's Moor, Exhibition Park and Nuns Moor Park. The Hoppings, Europe's largest travelling fair, is held annually on the Town Moor. The Newcastle Mela, an Asian arts and music festival, is held every year in Exhibition Park.

L to R: Exhibition Park lake and museum, Nunsmoor Centre, Nuns Moor Park facilities  

What's going on ...

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 Neighbourhood Standards 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. Find out other ways to make your views known.

Newcastle General Hospital site

Outline Planning Permission was granted by Development Control Committee on Friday 21 January 2011 in line with officers' recommendations. The Committee report is available to view here. Read the latest update on progress (pdf, 380KB).

Dame Allan's Nursery and Junior Schools at Hunter's Moor

Dame Allan's Schools have received planning permission for their new nursery and junior school at Hunter's Moor. The new school will open in September 2012. Read about progress in the latest Spital Tongues community newsletter (pdf, 3.71MB).

Westgate Hill Primary School

The design for the new building, to replace the existing school building, was finalised by the City Council and its Local Education Partners, Aura. A planning application (reference number 2011/0120/01/DET) was submitted to the City Council in January 2011. Full details can be accessed through the planning website.

Planning approval was granted by the Development Control Committee on 25 March 2011. View the proposed site plan (pdf, 172KB) and latest update (pdf, 67KB).

Former Tram Shed, Depot and Car Garage on Westgate Road

The planning application for the conversion of the former tram shed, depot and car garage building was approved by Planning Committee on the 29 July 2011, subject to a number of conditions. It is proposed to convert the locally listed structure to create two retail units and a 48 bed hotel, with restaurant and conference facilities, by inserting a first floor level within the existing structure and erecting an extension to the Westgate Road elevation. The application also proposed car parking to the front and rear and the relocation of the existing car wash facility.

View the application documents, report to Planning Committee and the decision notice, including all the conditions of the planning approval, on the planning website, under reference 2011/0567/01/DET.

Further details are available from Ros Kain, Planning Officer, 0191 277 7295, ros.kain@newcastle.gov.uk.

The Beacon

The new building is now open. 
Visit the website to find out more.

Highways and Traffic Management - Ward Update

This report (pdf, 1.81MB) 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.

The work listed will be subject to further discussions with ward councillors and will form the basis of the monthly ward report that is sent out to the Elected Members. If you have any questions or comments, you can email the Wingrove ward co-ordinator, come to Wingrove Ward Committee, or contact your local councillors.

Key facilities and services

Use our online map to find your nearest local facilities such as schools, libraries, leisure facilities, recycling sites and heritage information such as listed buildings and ancient monuments. 

Visit the Service Finder page to view details of the wide range of services and facilities in the Wingrove ward. This includes details about:

• Fenham and Moorside libraries which are situated closest to the Wingrove ward.
• Green and open spaces in the ward, including allotment sites at Nunsmoor, Oxnam Gardens and Moorside.
• Housing services including those delivered by Your Homes Newcastle, the private rented sector, housing associations, and the St Mary Magdalene & Holy Jesus Trust which is a registered charity providing sheltered accommodation, support services and a social care home for older people in Spital Tongues.
• Neighbourhood Policing Teams that serve the area - they are the Benwell and Elswick, and Fenham and Scotswood Teams. 
• Nunsmoor Children's Centre which provides early years activities, play sessions, health, training and education services for families in the West End of Newcastle.
• Places of worship including the Apostolic Church, Coptic Church, Dilston Road Methodist Church, Madina Mosque, Robert Stewart Memorial United Reformed Church, St Luke's Church, and Westgate Baptist Church. Many have halls/rooms for hire for meetings and other activities.
• St Nicholas Cemetery, opened in 1858, situated on Nuns Moor Road. 
• Schools - there are two local authority schools in the Wingrove ward - Westgate Hill Primary School and Wingrove Primary School. Dame Allan's Schools are also located in the ward.
• Shops and shopping areas in Wingrove which are located on Hadrian Road, Nuns Moor Road, Stanhope Street, and Westgate Road. There are also shops in Spital Tongues.
• Sport and leisure facilities in the area including the multi-use games area at the Nunsmoor Centre, West End Centre for Sport and Fenham Pool.
• West End Customer Service Centre on Condercum Road, which is the closest to the Wingrove ward, where you can access a range of services and information from council and other public services all under one roof.

Historic Wingrove

View the 1898 2nd edition OS map for Wingrove ward (pdf, 7.75MB). 

Spital Tongues

The origin of the name Spital Tongues is believed to be derived from 'spital', a corruption of Hospital, and 'Tongues', meaning an outlying piece of land. Edward 1st is said to have given two pieces of land to the St Mary Magdalene Hospital. All the land known by that name once belonged to the Hospital. Moor Lodge became a home for incurables in 1884, with a further expansion in 1893. Spital Tongues was thought to be a beautiful place, surrounded by open spaces, with its own water supply (the Pandon Burn), and cattle could be seen being led to nearby grazing grounds on the Town Moor. In the 18th century, both Newcastle's first lunatic asylum and a windmill were constructed here, with the character of the area changing in 1836 with the opening of the Spital Tongues colliery, which facilitated the construction of the Victoria Tunnel for the transportation of coal. Other influences on the development of the area include Robson's furniture manufacturers and the military.

Arthur's Hill

The area of development nearer to the town was known as Westgate until the 1820s. In 1835, both the Westgate and Elswick townships became part of Newcastle. At this point, buildings were present along Westgate Hill, with the estate of Isaac Cookson, dating from 1826, present opposite the non-conformist Westgate Cemetery. The origin of the name Arthur's Hill derives from the name of Cookson's first son for whom the estate was named. The names of his other sons were attached to the streets. Following the road, other properties present were John Dobson's Prospect House and Gloucester House, with the Union Workhouse beyond. Expansion of the area was fuelled by the Industrial Revolution with a necessity for additional housing. Other influences on the development of the area were the Reverend W N Darnell who inherited land in the early 19th century and for whom some streets were named, also his nephew Philip, for example Philip Place.

Wingrove Terraces

The properties within this area were constructed on land formerly occupied by North Elswick Hall and land associated with Fenham Hall. A large fish pond can also be clearly identified on the 1858 map associated with Fenham Hall. By 1919, residential development can be seen within Nuns Moor Road and Crescent, with the remainder of the area remaining as fields and agricultural land. By 1937, the area had been fully developed with housing fronting the West Road, whilst behind these properties, development was still continuing on a variety of property types. The area consists primarily of residential properties, although a number of schools were originally located within its boundaries.