The Grape Lane residents gardening club have been building on the gardening project Cllrs Freeman and Ormerod funded last year by growing plants in their allotment which they have planted in beds on the estate.

They have also been successful this year in obtaining a small amount of funding from the Council’s Civic Pride Team and Durham City Homes for an It’s Your Neighbourhood project to develop new floral beds in the estate, as well as improving the existing ones.

This will also contribute to the City’s Bloom entry as it did last year.

As part of their project they are holding a partners’ planting day on Monday 20th June

Anyone interested in helping should meet at 10am at the top of the estate (fallback date is 23rd in case of bad weather).