EXPANSION PLAN: The site in Middleton-in-Teesdale TM pic
LIGHT and noise pollution, traffic safety and the height of new warehouses were among the chief worries raised during a public consultation about a dale firm’s expansion plans.
Technimark is proposing to build two warehouses in a field adjoining its site along Gas Lane, in Middleton-in-Teesdale, sparking concerns, particularly from people living in neighbouring historic leadminer cottages along Newtown. As a result of the public reaction county planners organised an online meeting last week for people to air their views.
Planning officer Amy Williamson said 25 letters of objection had been received, along with ten letters of support. Explaining the need to expand the site, Technimark managing director Stephen Shaw said the company had grown from a turnover of £4million in 2015 to £10million in 2020 and it now had limited storage capacity.
Christopher John Peart breached Sexual Harm Prevention Order while on suspended sentence A SEX offender who was spared a prison sentence after falling for online activists’ sting last summer, is now behind bars after repeating the offence. Christopher John Peart thought he was contacting a 14-year-old girl on social media, offering her £50 for indecent photos and more to buy her silence. Durham Crown Court heard in reality he was communicating with a member of the Child Online Safety Team who posted the decoy profile of the girl. Peart was given a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with an order to attend 30 rehabilitation sessions overseen by the Probation Service, when he appeared at the court for sentence, on August 25.
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• 28 Feb 2021
MAKING A SPLASH: Parish councillors in Middleton-in-Teesdale are asking for an investigation into whether damaged drains are responsible for the flooding and ice risk on Laneside
DRAINAGE issues that could be linked to work carried out by contractors a year ago have become dangerous for motorists.
Highways bosses are to be asked to investigate drains at Laneside on the B6282 at the entrance to Middleton-in-Teesdale after reports of excessive flooding across the carriageway following the recent wintry weather.
Members of Middleton-in-Teesdale and Newbiggin Parish Council agreed to request Durham County Council’s highways department look into the situation after reports that water flowing down the road had caused sheet ice.
Millionaire playboy Simon Bowes Lyon, 34, is great-great nephew of the Queen Mother and cousin of Queen
Aristocrat barged into a terrified woman s bedroom ancestral home Glamis Castle and forced her onto a bed
He groped her in 20-minute attack after she was invited as guest to party, forcing her to barricade inside room
At Dundee Sheriff Court the Earl of Strathmore was jailed for ten months and placed on sex offenders register
He is serving at Her Majesty s pleasure at HMP Perth, Scotland s oldest and recently most-violent prison