EFFORTS are being made to clean-up a corner of Teesside.
Scores of local schoolchildren are helping to plant trees on the cleared site of the Portrack Incinerator, demolished because it failed to comply with European legislation.
Before being disbanded, Teesside Development Corporation pledged to get rid of the burner, which officials said was an unsightly blot on the landscape on one of the main approaches to Teesside.
Improvement works are now in progress to turn it into a haven for wildlife.
Children from St John the Evangelist Primary School, Billingham, Tilery Primary School, Stockton, and High Clarence Primary School, Port Clarence, helped plant trees.
Jonathan Pounder, Tees Corridor Project Officer, said: "It's really great to bring the kids down to the site and show them the work that has been carried out so far.
"The kids are working on suggestions for a new name for the site, and with some more work the site will be another great addition to the Tees Corridor, providing opportunities for the people and wildlife of the area.''
Stockton mayor, Councillor Ann Cains, visited the children on site yesterday.
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