- Durham County Council has granted planning for a £30m redevelopment of The Gates shopping centre.
- Fund manager owner Clearbell Capital hopes to get work started on its scheme early in the New Year and the new centre will open in two stages in 2018.
- To share your stories email Grant Prior or Aaron Morby… always off the record
- A contractor has still to be appointed the the project, which will include a cinema and a new riverside promenade of restaurants and 250-bed student accommodation and refurbishing over 20 shops.
- Talk to the Enquirer.