Peterlee

54.760555555556 - 1.3322222222222Koordinaten: 54 ° 46 ' N, 1 ° 20 ' W

Peterlee is a so-called New Town was founded in County Durham in the North East of England and consists of several merged villages. This Neustadt -ups should relieve congested urban centers after the Second World War. It was named the city after a locally known miner, Peter Lee, in 1948. The population was initially mainly of mining workers. The city has 30,093 inhabitants (as of 2001) and is part of the Unitary Authority County Durham.

Peterlee differs from other Neustadt -ups, such as Welwyn Garden City, in that it has been applied at the express wish of the inhabitants through their political representatives ( Members of Parliament ) and not initiated by the government.

A deputation of the district of Easington, mainly consisting of miners, met after the Second World War with the Minister for Urban and Regional Planning (Minister of Town and Country Planning), John Silkin, and reached it, that the application for a merger of several villages in the district has been advocated to a city and carried out. The population of the new town was approx 30,000 people.

Since 1981, there are approximately equal to the big city Nordenham on the lower Weser twinned. It will be held both public and private meetings regularly. Since 1975 there has been twinned with the town of Baesweiler - Northern District of Aachen - Germany. Again, both public and private meetings are held regularly.

Economy

Developing Peterlees subject to various changes in the recent years. So a new bus station has been built and a shopping center, which was called the Castle Dene Shopping Centre. An ASDA supermarket was opened in November 2001 and from October 2009 the addition of three more supermarkets has been hotly debated. The Durham County Council finally settled then in June 2011 the planning of a supermarket for the group Tesco and another supermarket in Castle Dene to. They should enable those living in Peterlee and the surrounding villages more choice, after Safeway was closed in 2005 and ASDA was the only remaining large supermarket.