Portfolio Holder - Councillor Dave Farry

Ferryhill Station

Ferryhill Town Council provides public conveniences at Ferryhill Station, which have recently been refurbished in line with the Ferryhill Station Regeneration Scheme.

Over £11,000 of grant funding has been provided via SRB6 funds, which has been used to erect a new slate tiled pitch roof, and lighting to help to improve the general environment in the Ferryhill Station area.

The Town Council inherited the toilets at Ferryhill Station in 1974 during local government reorganisation.

Ferryhill Town Centre

Five of Ferryhill's Borough Councillors, namely Kath Conroy, Pauline Crathorne, Jim Higgin, Bernard Lamb and David Newell are determined to meet public demands to bring back public toilets to Ferryhill town centre by pooling their resources to raise £72,000, subject to the Town Council providing the funding to run the toilets.

The five Councillors appoached Ferryhill Town Council with their idea of pooling resources to enable the Town Council to develop public conveniences in Ferryhill Town Centre, providing land can be found to locate them.

A recent report identified land in the car park to the rear of the Nat West Bank as a potential site to build toilets on, however, other options are to be examined, including the market place,before finalising the project.

A working party has been established, comprising local Councillors, an expert from Segefield Borough Council and a representative from the local Police, to progress the project.

Residents of Ferryhill have been demanding reinstallation of public toilets in the town since the town's former outdated toilet block was demolished. A Community Appraisal carried out in the Town in 2001 identified the need for public toilets to be developed as being among the town's top ten most important projects. Further, a 2006 survey also demonstrated that reinstalling public toilets in the town was still very much a priority amongst the local community.