The attached map shows the area covered by the East Durham Rural Corridor AAP.
East Durham Rural AAP map.pdf (1 pages, 1499kb)
Forthcoming meetings
The next Board meeting will be held on Wednesday 15 September 2010 from 6.00 pm - 8.00 pm at Kelloe Primary School, Front Street, Kelloe, Durham, DH6 4PG
Forum meetings
The next Forum meeting will be held on Wednesday 17 November 2010 - times and venues to be confirmed.
Annual General Meeting - May 2010
At our Annual General Meeting held on 19 May 2010, Colin Steel from Sedgefield Borough Homes (statutory partner) was elected Chair, Andrew Thompson (public representative) was elected Vice Chair and Councillor Jan Blakey was elected Vice Chair (Councillors).
First Board meeting
The first meeting of the East Durham Rural Corridor AAP Board took place on 29 July 2009.
The Board looked at action plans to address the priorities developed by local people at May's AAP launch meeting. The three main areas for the AAP to focus on are:
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activities for young people
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community spirit and aspirations/support for the Voluntary and Community Sector
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sustainable transport and traffic issues
Sub-groups were formed to work on the priorities.
Cllr Maria Plews was elected as chair of the Board.
The Board was given a presentation highlighting the winter gritting routes and highways schemes available. The Board also received a presentation on the City of Culture bid for the county.
Attached are the minutes and a summary of the main points of the meeting:
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (7 pages, 57kb) 29 July 2009
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting summary.pdf (1 pages, 13kb) 29 July 2009
Subsequent meeting minutes
Please find the attached minutes and papers from subsequent AAP meetings:
Key Messages.pdf (1 page, 51kb) 21 July 2010
Key Messages.pdf (1 page, 42kb) 16 June 2010
Key Messages.pdf (2 pages, 52kb) 19 May 2010
Keymessages.pdf (1 pages, 52kb) 17 March 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Special Board Minutes.pdf (4 pages, 101kb) 16 June 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Board Minutes.pdf (5 pages, 137kb) 19 May 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Board Minutes.pdf (6 pages, 130kb) 17 March 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (1 pages, 13kb) 28 January 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (1 pages, 13kb) 20 January 2010
East Durham Rural AAP Forum summary.pdf (13 pages, 120kb) December 2009
East Durham Rural Forum.pdf (13 pages, 131kb) 10 December 2009
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (1 pages, 14kb) 24 November 2009
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (1 pages, 14kb) 18 November 2009
East Durham Rural AAP Board meeting minutes.pdf (1 pages, 14kb) 16 September 2009
Other documents
East Durham Rural AAP Neighbourhoods FAQs.pdf (1 pages, 10kb)
East Durham Rural Corridor launch meeting
The launch meeting of the East Durham Rural Corridor Area Action Partnership (AAP) was held on 29 April 2009 at Sedgefield Community College. In total, 84 people attended the launch, and residents' groups, councillors, county council officers, representatives from partner organisations such as the Police and fire service, and voluntary groups were all represented on the night.
The event was opened by Councillor Simon Henig, leader of Durham County Council.
People had the chance to look at a range of information boards giving them details about their area (see the Area Action Partnerships information page for the boards).
People also had the chance to view some of the successes in their area: Area Action Partnership launch event boards East Durham.pdf (1 pages, 255kb)
We also produced an 'area profile' for the partnership to give people more detail about the work going on in the area:
AAP profile for East Durham Rural.pdf (2 pages, 869kb)
Issues on the night
Name
One of the main aims of the meeting was to choose the name for the AAP. In a vote, East Durham Rural Corridor was the final choice.
AAP priorities
Another important aim of the first meeting was to develop priority themes for the AAP to focus on over the coming year.
Many issues were discussed including educational attainment, crime and anti-social behaviour and physical regeneration. From the discussions, attendees developed the following priority themes:
- Activities for young people (54 votes)
- Support for voluntary community sector (29 votes)
- Community spirit and aspirations (27 votes)
- Sustainable transport (26 votes)
- Traffic issues (21 votes)
- Educational attainment (20 votes)
- Environment improvements (20 votes)
- Crime and community safety (16 votes)
- Healthy lifestyles (16 votes)
- Street cleanliness (11 votes)
For more information about the East Durham Rural Corridor, please get in touch with the contact below.
