RESIDENTS of one of the largest council estates in Europe will help to shape plans for a neighbourhood centre.
Funding has been set aside through the Single Regeneration Budget to build a centre on the Hardwick council estate at Stockton.
Residents will be asked where they want it built, and what facilities they want there.
A consultation exercise is to be launched, involving residents, schools, businesses, churches and community groups.
Hundreds of questionnaires are to be distributed, backed up with a series of public meetings and presentations.
Unite, the mediation and conciliation training organisation undertaking the consultation, said that by the completion of the exercise local people will have helped to build a neighbourhood centre "that is truly for the community"
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