Next week’s Great Aycliffe and Middridge Area Action Partnership (GAMP) board meeting will consider three projects that Aycliffe North County Councillors John D Clare, Mike Dixon and Joan Gray have been seeking. The first is a response to increasing parking problems at the Aldfrid entrance to King’s Drive.  To ease parking congestion there, the GAMP Board will consider a £10,800 proposal to extend the capacity of the nearby parking bay.  The second project is a £15,500 proposal to install dropped kerbs throughout the King’s Drive estate.  Councillors have already installed accessibility improvements into the Well House and Horndale estates, and this – along with the parking-bay and the recent transformation of the DCC-owned red tarmac areas – represents our commitment to value the King’s Drive estate, and to work with residents to upgrade and improve it where we can. The third – a £21,700 project to buy and maintain a flashing speed-warning visor – will benefit the whole town, and has been supported by all Aycliffe’s County Councillors and the GAMP Community Safety Task Group.  The idea came from door-knocking residents in Ryder Court and The Grange, who are worried about speeding on Burnhill Way and Woodham Way, but all the Aycliffe County Councillors knew of places where speeding is a concern.  One proven way to slow traffic is to deploy from time to time a flashing speed visor – whereas drivers ‘become immune’ to a permanent visor, temporary deployment on a rota basis cuts speeds by making drivers aware.  DCC has a speed visor for the South Durham area, but it is fully-deployed.  If this proposal is successful, GAMP will purchase a speed visor exclusively for Great Aycliffe and Middridge, which can then be deployed around the area on a rota basis as necessary … hopefully saving lives by cutting speeding. The GAMP Board is meeting at Greenfield Arts at 6pm on Tuesday 29 November.  Members of the public are welcome to attend, but please register by phoning 327441. County Councillors John D Clare, Mike Dixon, Joan Gray