Pilot Phase
Town Moor (2023 to 2025)
Manage surface water from Town Moor and through Exhibition Park.
Development of natural flood management (NFM).
Phase also used to set up project structure, workstreams and partnerships
Phase 1
Hunters Moor & Pandon Burn (2024 to 2027)
Control runoff from Hunters Moor, the source of the historic Pandon Burn, using NFM.
Major opportunity for bio-diversity net gain (BNG) as well as surface water management.
Phase 2
Lam Burn & Skinner Burn (2024 to 2029)
Manage surface water from Arthurs Hill, that historically followed the routes of the Lam and Skinner Burns away from Grainger Town and the city centre.
This will showcase the multiple benefit approach, retrofit SUDS and design for exceedance where systems are overwhelmed.
Phase 3
City Centre (2025 to 2039)
Long term introduction of BGI in the city centre, create BNG, provide green corridors, linkage between cultural and heritage sites and communal spaces.
Phase 3 will also include an Environment Agency led project to address the tidal flooding risk from the River Tyne.
Phase 4
Net Zero Neighbourhoods (2025 to 2035)
Implement project principles in residential areas and high streets at a regional level through processes and structures developed by wider project.