Agenda item

Questions had been received from Weardale Area Action Partnership and the Bishop Auckland and Shildon Area Action Partnership relating to the following:

·         Support for the Mineral Products Association’s proposed new Aggregates Levy Community Fund;

·         Work the Council is doing with its partners to ensure National Government was aware of the importance of continued regeneration funding post-Brexit.

Angela Maddison, Weardale AAP Co-ordinator and Andrew Walker, Bishop Auckland and Shildon AAP Coordinator were in attendance to ask their questions.  Councillor C Marshall, Portfolio Holder for Economic Regeneration thanked both the Weardale AAP and the Bishop Auckland and Shildon AAP for their questions and provided a response to both.