Great Aycliffe and Middridge AAP Board meetings

The Board also looks at how those projects are progressing and gets involved in consultations on local issues. 

Board meetings

Anyone can attend a board meeting as an observer, but it does help us to organise things if you are able to let us know beforehand. Whilst we are still holding online meetings you will need to register as you will need a link to access the meeting.

Future AAP board meeting dates

Please contact us for details of future board meetings.

Minutes and summaries of previous meetings

• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 28 November 2023 (PDF, 166.3kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 26 September 2023 (PDF, 141.8kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 18 July 2023 (PDF, 159.7kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 28 March 2023 (PDF, 165.9kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 13 January 2023 (PDF, 168.6kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 29 November 2022 (PDF, 162.7kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 27 September 2022 (PDF, 174.8kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 19 July 2022 (PDF, 177.1kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 24 May 2022 (PDF, 178.1kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 29 March 2022 (PDF, 163.7kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 25 January 2022 (PDF, 155.1kb)
• GAMP Board Minutes 23 November 2021 (PDF, 139.9kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 28 September 2021 (PDF, 151.3kb)
• GAMP Board Meeting Minutes 13 July 2021 (PDF, 131.7kb)

For previous notes, please contact us.

We aim to publish minutes once they are approved at the following meeting.

Board members

The AAP board has 21 members - seven public and seven partner representatives, six county councillors and one town councillor. They are:

Public representatives

• Sue Cooke
• Simon Hocking
• Chris Hutchinson (Vice Chair)
• Peter Shovlin
• Glenis Simmonds
• Jeff Watson
• Natalie Whitworth

Partner representatives

• Carol Gaskarth (Voluntary and Community Sector)
• Inspector Sarah Honeyman (Police)
• Andy Coulthard (Livin Housing) (Chair)
• Daniel Blagdon (Health Representative - Clinical Commissioning Group)
• Malcolm Woodward (Fire Service)
• Oliver Sherratt (Durham County Council Head of Service)
• Rosie Woodward (Business Representative)
• Andy Kerr (Durham County Council Head of Service)

County and parish representatives

• Cllr Eddy Adam (Aycliffe West) 
• Cllr Jim Atkinson (Aycliffe East) (Vice Chair)
• Cllr Neville Jones (Aycliffe East)
• Cllr Tony Towers (Middridge Parish)
• Cllr Ken Robson (Aycliffe West)
• Cllr Michael Stead (Aycliffe North and Middridge)
• Cllr David Sutton-Lloyd (Aycliffe North and Middridge)