PLANS for a town centre revamp are forging ahead as the designing of shop fronts and landscaping get under way.

Ideas for the regeneration of Spennymoor were discussed at a town forum meeting, when Sedgefield Borough Council updated traders on the project's progress.

Work on cleaning up the town's image is already under way, with phase one of the task almost complete.

Principal design and conservation officer at the council, Bill Kataky, showed detailed plans of what had been done and what was to come.

He told traders that two shop fronts - Broadway Caf, on Cheapside and Fletchers, on the High Street - had already been redecorated.

He said that work to improve the footpath link from the leisure centre to the town was also going well with half of it already completed.

So far, the footpath that runs under the leisure centre squash courts has been widened and new paving laid down. This is to make the link safer for shoppers to walk down.

Posts have been put in place for a steel and glass canopy, which will have lighting.

Traders were also asked their opinion on designs for the high street roundabout, which will be seen as the "gateway to the town centre".