Aycliffe Today Business Aycliffe Today Business Issue 43 | Página 17

The magazine for Aycliffe Business Park | 17
AAA Caring
Caretaker
agrees deal with
Finchale Group
A
Newton Aycliffe firm is hoping to
expand after a agreeing a new
partnership with a leading Durham-
based training provider.
AAA Caring Caretaker, based on the
business park, has linked up with the
Finchale Group, formally known as Finchale
College, which has an established reputation
in the training of veterans in the North-East.
Both organisations employ veterans, and
say their new agreement will enable them to
draw on each other's strengths to grow.
Richard H Tucker MBE, managing director
of Caring Caretaker, said: “This is an exciting
opportunity for us to grow significantly over
the next few years.
“This partnership will enable our company
to engage in higher level contracts, as The
Finchale Group will provide those highly
sought after skills in bid writing, while they
also have significant training facilities to
enable those individuals chosen to be ready
to start work.
Pictured (left to right) Richard H Tucker MBE from AAA Caring
Caretaker, Durham mayor Katie Corrigan, the Lord Lieutenant
Sue Snowdon, Mandale Group estates director Joe Darragh
and Finchale Group CEO Diane Watson.
“Our highly-effective service is designed
around our clients’ needs. We can offer a
tailored, integrated value-for-money service,
whether this be an office move, cleaning
services, painting and decorating or site
maintenance, and we’re proud to have such
highly-trained and motivated personnel.”
AAA Caring Caretaker also works for
the NHS trusts in the Durham, Tees & Esk Valleys along with enjoying a partnership
with LandMarc Solutions, one of the
approved Defence Contractors and the
Defence Infrastructure Organisation, and is
now seeking to develop its client base with
neighbours on Aycliffe Business Park who are
seeking quality and reliable partners.
Find out more at aaapropertynortheast.
com/caring-caretaker or call 01325 311116.
to Durham County Council last February,
and they were passed by councillors in the
summer.
The proposals include a range of business,
industrial and distribution units varying in size
from 30,000 sq ft to 500,000 sq ft, a trade
park consisting of 11 units from 5,000 sq ft to 10,000 sq ft, as well as the retail and food
amenities.
Forrest Park – which has attracted £13m
funding from the Local Enterprise Partnership
– could create 3,200 jobs and deliver a gross
value added economic boost to the area of
£495m over the next 10 to 15 years.
KFC drive thru
planned for
finger lickin’
Aycliffe site
A
KFC drive thru is planned for a
major new development in Newton
Aycliffe.
Plans for the £140m Forrest Park
development on Aycliffe Business Park, close
to the services just off the A1 (M), are due to
progress in 2020 after the plans were given
outline planning permission last summer.
Since then, the proposals – which are on
the Durham County Council planning portal –
have been amended slightly to include a new
petrol filling station, small retail units and a
KFC drive thru restaurant (which might look
similar to the image right) by Euro Garages.
That development will be next to the
60-bed hotel and pub development at the
‘front plot’ of the Forrest Park – and work is
expected to start within months.
Joint venture company Forrest Park
Newton Aycliffe, supported by leading
commercial property developers Richardson
Barberry, submitted the original outline plans