A Darlington councillor is calling for a bus station to be included in plans for a new leisure development.
Sheila Brown believes a town the size of Darlington should have a bus station.
She says the ideal place for it would be on the site of the former Feethams bus station, which closed in November 1997. This was due to be redeveloped for a leisure scheme, but a development on the other side of the road is likely to get under way first.
It is expected that any eventual building will complement this first scheme, which will include a cinema and bingo club, but there are no plans to have another bus station.
Coun Brown said: "Darlington should have a bus station where people can go and wait for a bus without having to stand in the pouring rain."
A spokesman for Darlington Borough Council said there are no plans for a bus station and added that the new leisure development will only be a minute's walk from where the majority of buses stop in High Row
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