Gill Cartwright's Blog

PACT Meeting Wednesday 17th November

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Minutes of Harrowgate Hill PACT meeting held at Harrowgate Hill Institute, Salter’s Lane North, Darlington at 1830 hrs on the 17th November 2010  

Response to Petition

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The official response from the Council can read below:- Petition concerning the retention of Service 6a/b in the Glebe Road area I refer to the petition received by the Council on 8 November 2010 concerning maintaining the operation of service 6a/b along Glebe Road, Laburnum Road and Mayfair Road. This section of route is currently provided by Arriva under [...]

Meeting the Environment Agency

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One of the positive outcomes from last nights meeting with the Environment was following a suggestion from myself the Council would take the lead in arranging a quarterly multi-agency meeting to include the Council, the Environment Agency, the Police, the HSE, the HPA and elected members.

Invitation to Meet Environment Agency

Below is a invitation that has been sent out tonight to Local & National newspapers, Radio and TV We would like to invite you on behalf on Harrowgate Farm Residents Association and the wider community of Harrowgate Hill to a meeting on Wednesday 10th November at 7pm. The venue is – Darlington and Simpsons Rolling [...]

Temporary Closure of Laburnum Road

The following letter has been sent to residents confirming the temporary closure of Laburnum Road –   DARLINGTON BOROUGH COUNCIL LABURNUM ROAD, DARLINGTON (TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE), ORDER 2010   Darlington Borough Council has made an Order under the provisions of Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act, 1984, as amended, the effect of which [...]

Longfield School

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This is my speech to Cabinet on Tuesday night which was understandably not well received – “I am disappointed but not surprised by the comments made by the Cabinet Member for Children and Young People in the Echo last week where she described the “repairs to the schools like a plaster” Has she forgotten that [...]

Harrowgate Farm & Glebe Road

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Some Ward News Updates – Harrowgate Farm Play Area – We are pleased to be able to tell you that the exposed barbed wire on the fence next to the play area has been removed at last. Parents from the estate raised concerns with us that this exposed wire was a potential risk to children [...]

Speedwatch – Burtree Lane & Harrowgate Farm

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We have been receiving complaints again from residents on Burtree Lane and Harrowgate Farm about speeding traffic and it was agreed at last months PACT meeting that this would be made one of the three PACT priorities. Burtree Lane has been previously identified as a speeding “hotspot” following speed surveys conducted by Darlington Borough Council [...]

Welcome to my new Blog!

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Welcome to my new blog! As Mike said in an earlier posting, we have decided to embrace all of the new fangled social media technology such as Facebook and Twitter, hence the need for a more up to date website. This website interacts directly with Facebook and Twitter making it even easier for you to [...]