Schedule 1 DESCRIPTION OF THE DESIGNATED AREA

The designated area is the area which consists of all the following local authority areas or parts of such areas, that is to say—

1. (a)

   the county boroughs of the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, South Shields and Tynemouth;

2. (b)

   so much of the administrative county of Durham as is comprised in the following county districts, that is to say—

   1. (i)

      the borough of Jarrow;

   2. (ii)

      the urban districts of Blaydon, Felling, Hebburn, Ryton and Whickham;

3. (c)

   so much of the administrative county of Northumberland as is comprised in the following county districts or parts of such districts, that is to say—

   1. (i)

      the boroughs of Wallsend and Whitley Bay;

   2. (ii)

      the urban districts Gosforth, Longbenton, Newburn and Seaton Valley;

   3. (iii)

      so much of the rural district of Castle Ward as is comprised in the following parishes—

      • Brunswick, Dinnington, Hazlerigg, Heddon-on-the-Wall, North Gosforth,

      • Ponteland and Woolsington;

   4. (iv)

      so much of the rural district of Hexham as is comprised in the parish of Wylam.