Your feedback is helping us create better local streets for a better Newcastle.

Between 10 February and 24 March 2025, you could have your say by:

• Viewing the draft Local Streets Plan
• Completing the online submission form, or
• Sending a submission via mail to PO Box 489 Newcastle 2300

We are now reviewing all feedback. We will report back soon.

Your feedback will be considered in line with best practice principles and tools, to finalise the draft Plan.

Our plan to create better local streets for everyone

Local streets are where community happens. They are the connectors and enablers of our daily lives.

Making up 75% of Newcastle's road network, local streets provide access to homes and local destinations. They are some of our most significant public spaces, determining how easily we move through our communities, how we connect with neighbours and the health of our local environment.

Many of our local streets have historically been shaped around car movement, but community expectations have changed. People now expect safer, more comfortable places to walk or ride, more shade and streets that help build a sense of community.

The draft Local Streets Plan sets out a 10-year vision to create safer, greener, more welcoming and accessible local streets across Newcastle.

Bringing together state, national and global best practice and applying it to the Newcastle context, the draft Plan provides a clearer, more consistent approach to identifying and delivering local street improvements. It helps to ensure that asset renewal, safety, greening and community needs are considered together.