Areas covered across Gateshead

Few boroughs change character this quickly over three miles of hill. Bensham and central NE8 are dense Tyneside flat and terrace country, where siting is the first question rather than the last. Saltwell and Low Fell run from bay-fronted Victorian villas to comfortable interwar semis, the two ends of the same street asking completely different questions of a designer. Deckham, Wrekenton and Felling carry the borough's post-war and ex-colliery stock, much of it electrically heated and therefore holding the biggest bill reductions going. Dunston and the riverside pockets are the simplest work in the borough. Heworth sits somewhere in the middle, part estate, part suburb. Pick your district below, or go straight to the form.