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Like the cut of ya jib NE22………. NCC are in no doubt the Bedlington community are sick and tired of being fobbed off, not even with second best, with crumbs from the top table. They have been forced to put together a group looking at leisure provision in Bedlington, which has a sub group looking into developments for Gallagher Park. Working with Friends of Gallagher Park the Development Trust did a community consultation (look on this site I asked for input here too!) and we got almost 4000 replies back! That is pretty hard for any politician to ignore and they do so at their peril! That produced a list of 47 separate suggestions for development at the Park but way out in front was a call for some sort of sports facility. Those suggestions are being worked on now and some should be in place pretty soon! The more ambitious ones like sports centre etc. need a lot of working on to progress but that is being done too, it just takes longer. That is not to say we will get a major development there because there is a huge mountain of obstacles to get over, not least all types of funding disappearing, a decent road access into the site and the need for a proper ground survey to test soil and land conditions. I can say a master plan is being developed for the Park. The Development Trust have and are pushing this as fast and as far as it can go, in all sorts of directions!