Entries by John Seymour

Community Football Centre Opening Saturday 21st May

After the completion of a £50,000 renovation project, Stanley Community Football Centre will officially open this Saturday, the 21st May. To mark the ribbon-cutting on the area’s newest sporting facility, the centre will host a family open day, featuring a Penalty Shoot Out competition, Football Tennis, a bouncy castle, inflatables, a tombola, a climbing wall, […]

STC Annual Report 2015-16

The Council has published an Annual Report to inform residents about the projects, initiatives and events the Council has been involved with over the last 12 months.  There is also information about grant funding the Council has provided and a breakdown of the Council’s finances. The report is linked HERE (22MB, PDF) The Council will hold it’s […]

Next Week’s Meetings – Agendas Uploaded

There are two meetings of Council next week: Communications & Events – Tuesday 10th May at 6.30pm – Items for Consideration include Brass Festival, Christmas Lights, Review of Cycle Event Comms May 2016 Finance – Wednesday 11th May at 6.30pm – Year end accounts for 2015/16 and review of the 2016/17 budgets ‘-Finance Agenda 11-5-16 Finance Papers […]

Agenda for Full Council – 26th April

Next week’s Full Council meeting will be held on Tuesday 26th April at 6.30 pm. Items for discussion include issues and options from the resident survey, funding request from Durham Money Advice, Annual Governance Statement and Frequency of Meetings. Read the Agenda Read the Background Papers & Reports

Next Week’s Meetings – Agendas Uploaded

There are two meetings of Council next week: Communications & Events – Tuesday 12th April at 6.30pm – Items for consideration include Community Radio, Play in the Park Days and priorities identified by residents in the ‘Ask Stanley’ survey. Comms and Events Agenda 12-04-16 Finance – Tuesday 13th April at 6.30pm Finance Agenda 13-04-16 13-4-16 Finance Papers  

Shield Row Station to re-open in 2022

Tobyn Hughes, Chief Executive of Nexus has announced that the Tyne & Wear Metro will reach Stanley by 2022.  In a statement issued yesterday, he stated that Nexus had reached an agreement with Sustrans and the North East Combined Authority that would see a new line being created across former North Eastern Railway lines that […]

Next Week’s Meetings – Agendas Uploaded

There are three meetings of Council next week: Planning – Tuesday 5th April at 6.00pm – the application for change of use at Stansfield House in Joicey Square will be considered. 05-04-16 Planning Agenda Personnel – Tuesday 5th April at 6.30pm 05-04-16 Personnel Agenda Crime & Community Safety – Wednesday 6th April at 6.30pm – […]

Play in the Park – 1st April, South Moor

Play in the Park – This Friday, South Moor Memorial Park 10 – 3 The Town Council has organised some FREE half term activities for families in the Park this Friday. There will be loads of free activities including skittles, ball games, messy and creative play, outdoors skills and even a fairy trail. There will […]

March Agenda uploaded

The Agenda for the meeting on 22nd March 2016 can be found HERE. Background Papers and Reports: March 2016 Combined Papers ATTACHMENT H – Raw Anonymised Data from Survey (Excel)