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.