Security, Facilities & Fire Safety in Newcastle

We provide manned guarding, mobile patrols, gatehouse and access control, facilities management and waking-watch cover across Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and the wider Tyne and Wear region. Every officer is SIA-licensed and BS 7858 vetted, with relief cover and round-the-clock control-room support, so there are no gaps across industrial estates, city-centre offices, university and hospital sites and high-rise residential blocks.

Gateshead holds one of the UK’s largest industrial belts. Team Valley Trading Estate, one of the country’s first purpose-built industrial estates, covers around 650 acres and by 2017 hosted roughly 700 companies employing about 20,000 people, with names such as Greggs and Amazon among its occupiers. Alongside Follingsby Park, Saltmeadows Road, Blaydon and Birtley, and links to the A1 corridor, this concentration drives demand for round-the-clock gatehouse cover, yard patrols, HGV-flow management and facilities support.

Newcastle city centre adds regional headquarters, public-sector bodies and professional-services firms that need office guarding, reception and concierge. The North East’s five universities, including Newcastle and Northumbria, support more than 34,000 jobs and contribute about £2.2 billion a year to the regional economy, with city-centre campuses and student accommodation requiring patrols, access control and cleaning. The region’s health and life-sciences cluster, worth around £1.7 billion and employing about 8,000 people, adds complex hospital, lab and research-site security.

Fire safety remains a priority across the region’s high-rise stock. Newcastle was one of eight metropolitan areas targeted by the government’s £30 million Waking Watch Relief Fund, which allocated £22 million to areas with the largest numbers of high-rise buildings carrying unsafe cladding. We supply SIA-licensed, fire-trained officers for interim waking watch aligned with NFCC guidance and the Building Safety Act, deployed only where a building’s fire-risk assessment and responsible person require temporary simultaneous-evacuation arrangements. We help duty-holders move to permanent fire-alarm systems and remediation as soon as possible.