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PONTELAND • MILBOURNE • MEDBURN • PRESTWICK • KIRKLEY ISSUE 183 | DEC 20 FREE monthly community magazine for Ponteland and district School provides tonne of support for needy families Ponteland Police investigating spate of graffiti attacks remembers with Former homes for orphans up for sale for £750,000 style and dignity www.ponteland-tc.gov.uk pontnews&views 1 Thinking of retiring? Unsure of your options? Speak to a pensions expert For your free initial consultation give us a call on (01661) 821110 or email us at [email protected] Office 2a, Horton Park, Berwick Hill Road, Seaton Burn, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE13 6BU Belsay Woodland Burials Now Available 2650 from 2899 390 Kip McGrath - Newburn and Westerhope Tel: 0191 4355 274 kipmcgrath.co.uk/newburn-and-westerhope Pont News & Views is published by Ponteland Town Council in conjunction with Ponteland Community Partnership. Inclusion of articles and advertising in Pont News & Views does not imply Ponteland Town Council’s or Ponteland Community Partnership’s endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided. If you would like to submit an article, feature or advertise contact: T. (0191) 5191306 E. [email protected] Westray, 16 Sunniside Lane, Cleadon Village, SR6 7XB. 2Produced bypont Ciannews creative&views pr email: [email protected] Former homes for orphans now on sale for £750,000 For more than 50 years they housed orphans and children from very poor families. Today they are selling for a cool three-quarters of a million pounds apiece. The first of the former Cottage Homes on the former Northumbria Police headquarters site in Ponteland are now on sale, costing up to £775,995. The listed Edwardian cottages are being carefully restored and converted to create new executive housing at The Listed at Ottermead development by Bellway. The Listed will provide 22 new homes, including four and five-bedroom houses, as well as five two-bedroom apartments within the converted Superintendent’s Home, while the original water tower is also being converted into a house. The new development is described as “a range of Grade II-listed Arts and Crafts-style properties, set in a crescent around an attractive area of green open space, offering beautiful exterior period features with the interior comforts of modern homes”. The new properties are located within the wider 275- home Jameson Manor estate, which comprises the 206-dwelling Ottermead scheme and 69-home Bridgemoor development by Ashberry Homes. The former police headquarters site, including the listed buildings, was bought by Bellway in 2018 for £21m, and this money has been reinvested into local policing in the area. The Ponteland Cottage Homes were built in 1903 by John Leeson, having been commissioned by the Newcastle Board of Guardians to provide accommodation for 300 orphans and children of very poor families. A school was opened in 1914 in Ponteland to take in the older children from the cottage homes. The building was later used for Ponteland First School before it moved in 2007. The cottage homes complex closed in 1959, before being used by Ponteland College of Education and The Listed at Ottermead showhome exterior and interior images and a photo of the Northumbria Police. Cottage Homes in the 1920s. www.ponteland-tc.gov.uk pontnews&views 3 GRANT APPLICATIONS The Town Council had no objection to HIGHWAYS WORKING PARTY the suggested locations but is to query The Town Council agreed a £350 grant whether a Black Cherry is the best Members of the Highways Working to Sport Tynedale, which provides choice of tree due to the root spread. financial assistance to athletes and Party have agreed their priorities for the teams achieving excellence and gaining NCC Local Transport Plan for 2021-22. representative honours and to coaches PAVEMENT PARKING – OPTIONS Top priority is bridleway crossing safety and officials seeking new qualifications. improvements to include a Pegasus FOR CHANGE (GOVERNMENT crossing on Rotary Way suitable for use CONSULTATION) TREE PRESERVATION ORDERS by horse riders to the bridleways. Next is road improvements on Fox Covert AT LADYWELL WAY The Town Council considered a report about the above nationwide consultation Lane and/or the addition of a dedicated The Council is to question the species exercise. Councillors recognised the footpath in the interests of pedestrian chosen for a tree to replace one of problems that parking on pavements safety. Members have also asked for three felled to make way for a new caused for both pedestrians and raised bus stops at Cheviot View near to property on land at Ladywell Way. PTC motorists, but acknowledged it was Dobbies on the A696 and Middle Drive had been asked by the County Council inevitable to provide access in certain close to the junction with Broadway and to comment on the tree preservation areas. They agreed that this would be orders for the three new trees. One best dealt with by the County Council as speed surveys at locations on Middle resident, unhappy with the location of the highways authority. Town Councillors Drive, Western Way and North Road two of the trees and with concerns re will consider whether to submit where the speed limit changes from the species, submitted an objection. comments as individuals. 60mph to 30mph. This report is based on the minutes of the first remote Town Council meeting held on November 11th. 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Newcastle West End Foodbank collected around 70 crates of supplies from Ponteland High School on November 16th. It was the third collection for the foodbank from the school, with the previous one delivered just before the first national lockdown in March. In a message of thanks, foodbank volunteers praised both the scale and efficiency of the collection - delivered in a time of need as cold weather and the demands of another national lockdown begin to make charity operations even more challenging. Newcastle West End Foodbank opened in 2013 and is one of the busiest in the UK, providing food parcels which feed more than 30,000 people in the west end of Newcastle per year. Top requests for food donations from the foodbank are tinned fruit, jam, cereal, juice, rice pudding and custard. Donations can be dropped at Benwell Foodbank Centre (off Whickham View opposite Tyne View Dentists) between 9.30am and 4pm, Monday to Friday. 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Insp Neil is excited to engage with our communities, and is committed to targeting Night rural criminals and addressing issues that matter to you. He The East Tynedale Neighbourhood Team has experienced an continues to build on links with our partner agencies to jointly increase in reporting on and around Halloween and Bonfire address crime by prevention and problem solving, and is keen Night. Primarily, this related to youth disorder and other to work closely with our Rural Crime Volunteers who are the associated issues. We are grateful for the level of support from eyes and ears in the areas they live and work. our communities, as our best asset remains people willing to report their concerns.