A BUS station should be included in plans for a Darlington leisure development, according to a councillor
Conservative Councillor Sheila Brown says a town the size of Darlington should have a bus station, and the ideal place for it would be the site of the former Feethams bus station, which closed in 1997.
This site was due to be redeveloped for a leisure scheme, but a development on the other side of the road is likely to begin first.
It is expected that any eventual development will complement the first scheme, which will include a cinema and bingo club.
There are no plans to replace the former bus station.
Coun Brown believes this is wrong and says that as well as reducing the numbers of buses in the centre of the town, a bus station would complement the new leisure complex.
A spokesman for Darlington Borough Council said there were no plans for a new bus station.
He said that the new leisure development would only be a minute's walk from where the majority of buses stop, in High Row
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