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A change.org petition has sparked debate and full support in the council recently, but the council says that platform has ...

A road scheduled to be closed until the end of the year as part of a town centre redevelopment will remain shut until spring, council chiefs have announced. Stockton's Riverside Road has been closed ...

Councillor Clare Besford described a moral duty to allow children to 'grow, dream and achieve, free from the weight of financial hardship' ...

Stockton Council has revealed it created more than £8 million in social value through public service contracts during 2025.

The council is applying to its own planning department for a “certificate of lawfulness” to change the use of a home to a children’s home on Darlington Lane, Stockton. It wants to provide a home ...

Council leaders say they acknowledge the need to make street trading fees "fairer" after a petition calling for changes gathered more than 1,000 signatures. The current policy in Stockton-on-Tees came ...

An independent councillor has suggested lobbying the government to pay householders to take in homeless people. Councillor Ted Strike, who represents Ingleby Barwick North, made the suggestion to ...

Banks Homes has applied for planning permission to build the homes, which it describes as a 'logical settlement growth, ...