Labour candidate wants to bin Darlington garden village plan
Jessie Joe Jacobs joins Skerningham Garden Village campaigners in calling for the scheme to be scrapped THE architects of a Local Plan featuring a 4,500-home garden village supported by services such as schools, public transport and health have called for a key part of the strategy to be scrapped. Darlington Borough Council’s former leader Councillor Stephen Harker said economic conditions were no longer right to build the Government-backed Skerningham Garden Village and supported the Labour Party’s Tees Valley Mayoral candidate in urging the project be abandoned. The authority’s ...
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