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Entrance features “only” cost £160,000
 
Sedgefield Borough Council has denied rumours that two entrance features to the newly-named Aycliffe Business Park will cost £800,000 by saying that they will cost “only” £160,000 - twenty per cent of the total cost. The Council, to be abolished next year when the new Durham County unitary authority will take over, has re-branded the former Aycliffe industrial estate and is modernising it at a cost of £800,000. This will pay for environmental improvements, installation of street furniture and extensive planting. The £160,000 is for two sets of three entrance walls at the junction of A167. That's over £26,000 for each wall! (from the Northern Echo 25th February 2008).
    

LIBRARY VANDALISED – AGAIN

Newton Aycliffe Library has again been vandalised. In the latest attack, nine windows were smashed and the fire escape damaged. The building was reopened after repairs. Vandals have struck at least half a dozen times in the past year. The library is to be relocated “temporarily” at a cost of £350,000, although no date for this has been set. The sooner the “Master Plan” for the Town Centre is agreed and implemented, the better. Until then, the run-down state of the town centre makes it a magnet for vandals.

  

Community Centre Grant

A £44,000 grant from Sedgefield Borough Council’s Local Improvement Fund (LIP) will help refurbish Neville Community Centre – a very well used community facility.

  

“THE HUT”

Woodham Residents Association held its AGM at “The Hut” 19th March. The Hut, otherwise known under its official title of Morrison Close Community Centre, is in need of “urgent repairs.” The Hut can be booked for meetings and other events: phone secretary Jean on 320816.

  

NEW CROSSING

A “Puffin Crossing” is to be provided by Durham County Council at Burn Lane, near Tesco’s.

 

Homes Board "undemocratic"

The appointment of the eight-strong Sedgefield Homes Board – four councillors and four tenants – has been described as “undemocratic” by one resident who says they should have been elected, not appointed.

  

STOX REUNION

There is to be a reunion of stock car fans at the North Briton in Aycliffe Village on 22nd November 2008. Aycliffe Stock Car Stadium ran from 1956 to 1989 when it was closed despite extensive protests.

  

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