Shildon Strategic Place Plan

Help shape Shildon town centre's future

We are starting work in Shildon with our partner Urban Foresight to find out your views and ideas about how you would like to see the town develop over the next 10 years.

We want this plan to be developed with our communities, so its important that you tell us what you would like to see for the future.

We want to hear from the people who live and work in Shildon to help shape the future of your town. We want to understand your thoughts on its strengths and opportunities, what can be improved and what we’d all like Shildon to be in the future.

There are no existing ideas in mind, this vision will be directly shaped by the people of Shildon from the very beginning.  

Over the next eight weeks, we will be talking to people in the streets, at transport hubs, bus stops, shopping centres, organising drop-in meetings, listening to children and young people in schools, visiting community meetings and local organisations to find out your thoughts on the town's strengths, opportunities, and challenges, and your hopes for its future. 

County Durham has also been identified by The National Lottery Heritage Fund as one of its Heritage Places. Heritage Places is a £200 million initiative aimed at engaging communities and developing partnerships to create possibilities from the heritage in specifically identified areas across the UK. The initiative aims to put heritage at the centre of place based plans to transform local areas, helping to boost local pride and people's connection to their heritage. It will operate across whole places rather than supporting individual projects, encouraging local partners to make heritage at central to their plans to make their local areas better places to live, work and visit and will form part of the work to produce the Shildon and Newton Aycliffe Strategic Place Plans.

See Heritage Fund: Heritage 2033 – our 10-year strategy for more information.

We will use the information gathered from you alongside what we know about the town to develop a draft vision and feed information into the Heritage Place project.

We will then come back and ask you again what you think about the vision and start to draw up plans to help us get there.

The boundary map shows the Shildon town centre boundary. The map is bounded by Church Street to the East incorporating Robson Street, it is bounded by Dean Close to the North and returns South adjacent to Dean Street, taking in Park View before returning to Church Street. It also includes some of the areas linked to the town centre and which will have an influence on the Vision.

We want to know if you think we have missed any important areas which should be included in the map.

Complete our survey to enter into a free prize draw for a £100 One4All gift card. You will see the terms and conditions and privacy notice at the end of the survey.

Below shows what will happen during the project at each stage, how you can take part in the online surveys and other ways to have your say. The dates for future stages are provision and may change as the project progresses.

For more information visit Shildon Strategic Place Plan.

Phase five of this consultation closed on 23 November 2025.

For more information contact CED@durham.gov.uk

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