Funding has been approved for a new Youth Cafe in Ingleby Barwick.
As reported, the much needed facility will form part of a new community centre planned for the growing Stockton estate.
At a meeting of Stockton Council’s Cabinet yesterday members approved up to £50,000 be made available towards the provision of a Youth Café within the proposed community centre.
Councillors also agreed a proposal to secure a site from the developer Persimmon via a title transfer of land.
The land will then be transferred to Ingleby Barwick Town Council to enable a community centre to be built there, subject to the town council gaining planning permission and raising the funds to build it.
Stockton Council and Ingleby Barwick Town Council have been drawing up plans for a new centre on The Rings - but so far do not have an agreed site for it.
Ingleby Barwick independent councillor Ken Dixon said another community centre in Ingleby Barwick was “much needed”.
The council says the existing community centre at Beckfields is heavily used, which is why plans were drawn up for a new one.
Councillor David Harrington, also an Ingleby Barwick independent, fully supported a youth cafe, saying the idea was first “mooted a number of years ago”.
“It is a much needed community asset,” he said.
The Town Council will be responsible for securing the funding associated with the capital development - believed to be around £250,000 - and on-going maintenance and management of the community facility.
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