Bit less than the projected 2000 jobs talked about when this was first broached, plus it will suck in all potential development funding for a few years too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-23611585

Looks like I will have to find another pub to drop into for a cheap pensioners meal whilst coming home via Widdrington on the coastal route. The Widdrington Inn will be chocker when this goes ahead.

Bet the duchess of Northumberland wishes she had built a bigger tree house. She will just have to percyvere!

so my idea is out the window then.!!!! I've been plaiting and knotting bits of string together for weeks to make a zip rope between trees and over the river down the woods. I was just about to persuade members of WBTC and EBPC to dress up as pixies and live down there for a while to act as guides and helpers to the hoards of kids who will be abandoned down there while their parents are living it up in the Clayton.