Springfield Park, Darlington Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT. A WAR of words erupted after a council rejected calls to rule out using residential streets as entrances to a 4,000-home garden village. Cabinet members of Conservative-led Darlington Borough Council and its previous Labour leaders clashed over forecasts that 6,000 extra cars a day could pass through along some roads in Whinfield with the potential creation of gateways to Skerningham Garden Village. Furious exchanges also followed as the council’s cabinet ruled out creating a Deed of Dedication on Springfield Park, where a link road to the estate has been ruled out, to guarantee its use as a green space in perpetuity.
Springfield Park, Darlington Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT. A WAR of words erupted after a council rejected calls to rule out using residential streets as entrances to a 4,000-home garden village. Cabinet members of Conservative-led Darlington Borough Council and its previous Labour leaders clashed over forecasts that 6,000 extra cars a day could pass through along some roads in Whinfield with the potential creation of gateways to Skerningham Garden Village. Furious exchanges also followed as the council’s cabinet ruled out creating a Deed of Dedication on Springfield Park, where a link road to the estate has been ruled out, to guarantee its use as a green space in perpetuity.
Queenslanders share their memories of the 2011 floods on tenth anniversary of disaster
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Cars float in surging floodwaters down main street of Toowoomba after an inland tsunami hit the city on January 10, 2011
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Queenslanders share their memories of the floods of 2011 after an inland tsunami thrust cars into trees, water tanks onto roads and swept away an entire town, killing 36 people.
The first sound Murray Imms remembers was the roar of the water surging towards his Lockyer Valley home.
Plans for the proposed Hybrid Business Innovation Centre PLANS for an £8 million innovation centre in the North-East will be presented to a council next week. A report outlining updated plans for a £8 million innovation centre in Darlington will go before members of the borough s cabinet next week, which will also be updated on the project s progress. The proposed Hybrid Business Innovation Centre, at Central Park, would provide office space and laboratories. Darlington Council hopes the four-storey site will support economic growth and job creation while increasing the competitiveness of the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). The report to the cabinet provides an update on the project and asks members to give the go ahead for its detailed design and construction, subject to planning.