Dear Sir,
Like a lot of others, I am glad to see plans for the extension of the Aycliffe Business Park. The first phase of the works alone, providing a boost in terms of road access and improvements to the motorway service area.
However, I do feel as though to date, we are missing a trick to help promote both the business park and the town of Aycliffe as a whole.
It would be ideal if there was an obvious focal point – imagine Aycliffe’s answer to The Angel of the North. I realise that in such cash restrained times this may be difficult to achieve. There is of course one answer. How about relocating “The Head” currently languishing in a small cutting of trees a short distance down the road?
Mounted on a suitably prominent plinth either on the highest point of the new development or by the side of the motorway, it would add a distinctive feature and help draw attention to the development and by association, our town.
Rob Kirton
