I am still conversing with the council and steering group in relation to Abbey Leisure Centre and am particularly annoyed at the failure of the council to announce the new opening hours we have been negotiating with them. They wanted to cut hours to only 37 a week and we are hopeful of this being increased but still have nothing to tell users officially. We are meeting again shortly but I have spoken to Directors demanding that we get answers now.

Having seen that Shildon Leisure Centre is getting a 250,000 pounds investment in new facilities this week, I expect to see some positive answers immediately from the Council! When you consider they are subsidising other centres to the tune of millions around the county its the least we can expect for Abbey, from this Labour Council.

A planning application has been passed to re build Unit A at the Arnison Centre to provide three new units (Currently Halfords). Hopefully this will provide new jobs in the area.