Following the Government advice received on Monday 16th March 2020, the Council has made the difficult decision to close Shotton Hall and the Pavilion at Helford Road to all public and private bookings and functions from Wednesday 18th March for one calendar month.

All classes, bookings, events and functions at both sites are cancelled with immediate effect.

The closure will apply for a minimum of one calendar month, ie until at least 18th April 2020.

We will continue to monitor the advice from government on a daily basis and will update this information as and when anything changes.

Our staff are contacting all bookings for both sites to explain the situation and discuss refunds or alternative dates.

If you do have any questions or concerns please contact us on 0191 5862491 (Shotton Hall enquiries) or 0191 586 9957 (Pavilion enquiries), respond to this FB post or direct message us, or email council@peterlee,gov.uk

Stay safe everyone.

The Pavilion Sports & Community Centre at Helford Road will be closed to the public for 2 weeks from Monday 16th March 2020 until Monday 30th March 2020.

We can confirm that as at lunchtime on Friday 13th March there are NO known cases of COVID-19 in our customers or staff.

However, given the vulnerable nature of a good proportion of our users and the potential implications of last-minute closures due to possible future illness in staff we have taken this difficult decision to protect our customers and to provide some certainty about the next couple of weeks.

Any private party bookings over the next 2 weeks will be contacted directly to discuss their specific requirements. We are also contacting as many of our class members and community hirers as we possibly can to explain the situation to them direct.

We will be keeping a close eye on the emerging picture and government advice and will publish more information about future opening as soon as we can.

We are sorry for any inconvenience caused, and hope that our customers understand our desire to do our bit to reduce the likelihood of them contracting COVID-19 by attending sessions in our building.

Peterlee Town Council has just gone out to tender for the construction of a new ‘eco-friendly’ amenity building and store room at the Thorntree Gill allotments site in Peterlee.

All expressions of interest and contractor questions must be logged online through our procurement website here: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=6f56cd59-aeea-e911-80fa-005056b64545

Closing date for tender submissions is 4pm Monday 4th November 2019.

The results for the 2017 election of Town Councillors were announced on Saturday 6th May 2017.

Full results are available here.

In summary, the new members of Peterlee Town Council are…

Acre Rigg Ward

• Gordon Leslie Carne
• Karon Liddell
• Stephen Daniel McGlen
• Steve Miles
• Sheila Simpson

Dene House Ward

• David Paul Curry
• Karen June Duffy
• Terry Duffy
• Sonny Kirkup

Eden Hill Ward

• Mary Alison Cartwright
• Bob Kyle
• Jamie Michael Stuart Robinson

Howletch Ward

• Steven Patrick Franklin
• Angie Long
• Rob Moore
• Alan Thomas Wilkinson

Passfield Ward

• Karen Hawley
• Susan McDonnell
• Archibald Scott Henderson Meikle
• Andrew Watson
• Vik Watson

The elected members of the Council take up office on Monday 8th May 2017 and will be signing their acceptances of office, declaring interests, etc over the next week or so.  They will meet as the new Peterlee Town Council for the first time at our Annual Meeting on Monday 15th May 2017.  Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting, please contact the Council Offices at Shotton Hall for more information 0191 5862491 or council@peterlee.gov.uk