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PROTESTERS are celebrating after controversial plans to build 366 homes were rejected. North Tyneside Council’s planning committee voted to turn down an application by Bellway to build homes at Whitehouse Farm on land close to Newcastle’s Gosforth Park nature reserve. … Continue reading →

Land next to the Nature Reserve has been removed from a list of sites available to building firms for expansion. Leaders  have backed down on green belt building plans, Newcastle Council bosses have agreed to revise plans for 21,000 new … Continue reading →

On Sunday 12th February more than 500 people joined a walk in protest at plans by Newcastle and North Tyneside Councils to surround Gosforth Nature Reserve, the city’s most important wildlife site, with nearly 1,000 new houses. Young and old … Continue reading →

On Sunday 12th February local residents and wildlife enthusiasts will take part in a walk to show their opposition to plans by Newcastle Council and Persimmon Homes to build 600 new homes next to the city’s most important wildlife site, … Continue reading →

Please Act Now to Help Save Gosforth Wildlife from Development At the end of November 2011 Bellway Homes submitted a planning application to North Tyneside Council to build 366 executive homes on land at White House Farm, West Moor. The … Continue reading →

Some of the North East’s most dedicated volunteers have been recognised for their work in the region’s museums and galleries at the annual Renaissance North East Museum Volunteer Awards 2011, held at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle. Society … Continue reading →

WILDLIFE photographers in the North East have a new focus – preventing the building of 600 homes next to a top nature reserve. Kaleel Zibe and Alan Hewitt are backing the campaign, led by the Natural History Society of Northumbria, … Continue reading →

MORE than 400 people packed a hall last night to protest at the prospect of 600 homes being built on green belt land next to one of the oldest urban nature reserves in the UK. The public meeting at Gosforth Civic … Continue reading →

HUNDREDS of people gathered this week to protest about plans which could see 600 homes built next to a city nature reserve. James Littlewood, director of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, explains why they won’t give up the fight … Continue reading →