Transforming Newcastle’s heart with visionary regeneration.
blocwork and Platform4 want to transform the historic Forth Goods Yard with a new mixed-use neighbourhood and New York-style public highline, connecting the site to the train station and creating a new western gateway for Newcastle.
Quality
514 new, high-quality apartments and townhouses across two residential blocks
Sustainability
New green space and public spaces, providing significant biodiversity improvements
Community
New retail and amenity space, creating a vibrant local community
Forth Goods Yard will deliver 514 apartments and townhouses, offering a variety of unit sizes for residents. Each home meets national space standards and benefits from access to more than 1,100 sqm of shared amenity space across both buildings, including a roof terrace on Building 2.
Sustainability is integral to the proposals with both buildings powered entirely by electricity, with solar PV panels also included in the design to generate renewable energy—contributing positively to Newcastle’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.
Forth Goods Yard will also create a vibrant urban park, featuring new sports facilities, play areas, and active loops to encourage healthy lifestyles and foster a strong sense of community for both residents and neighbours.
Building 1
- Up to 14 floors
- 135 one-bed apartments
- 212 two-bed apartments/townhouses
- 5 three-bed apartments/townhouses
Building 2
- Up to 6 floors
- 124 one-bed apartments
- 27 two-bed apartments/townhouses
- 11 three-bed apartments/townhouses
Unlocking Forth Yards
Forth Goods Yard will serve as a catalyst for regeneration across the 52-acre Forth Yards site, with potential to unlock 2500 homes and hundreds of millions of pounds in investment for Newcastle.
Regeneration across Forth Yards is supported by partners including the North East Combined Authority, Newcastle City Council and Homes England, which has recently created a £120m funding package to support remediation across the site.
Newcastle City Council has recently launched its consultation on plans for the wider Forth Yards area, which can be found here.
Sustainability
Landscaping proposals for Forth Goods Yard have been informed by the railway heritage of the site and delivering a rich, open mosaic habitat, with green space and sculptured elements used throughout to promote vertical and horizontal connectivity across the site, improving its permeability.
New habitats and planting will deliver improvements to biodiversity with a central rain garden connecting the site to the River Tyne. A new urban park will improve access to nature in the city centre, with new sports and play facilities supporting the growth of a vibrant, active community.
New parking spaces serving the train station will encourage the use of public transport, alongside improvements to active travel infrastructure. Solar PV panels will also be included, alongside a commitment to reducing the embodied carbon impacts associated with new construction.
Design and materials
The design of Forth Goods Yard draws from Newcastle’s unique industrial heritage, and the site’s historic connection to the railway, utilising texture, colour and tone to create a community that balances the new with the old.
The materials echo the engineering traditions of the area, using masonry and metal structures alongside new trees, hedges and green space, creating a coherent vernacular in keeping with the red brick and arches of the surrounding railway context.
The scheme has been developed to reflect the evolution of Forth Goods Yard which over two centuries of use, now turns a once inaccessible part of the city into a vibrant, connected neighbourhood.
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