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Plans in for multimillion-pound Crook scheme

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Plans for a new multimillion pound residential and leisure development in a County Durham town have been lodged.Crook Community Leisure is behind the scheme for 29 one, two and three-bed affordable homes on land to the north of Crook town centre.A concurrent outline application has also been submitted for a significant extension to the existing leisure centre at Peases West Sports Centre, which is run by Crook Community Leisure. New facilities include a 25m, six lane public swimming pool, multi-purpose studio room and an all-weather 3G rugby, football and hockey pitch with floodlighting. The car park is also scheduled for an upgrade to 103 spaces to support the new activities.The move could create up to 100 new jobs during construction and the associated supply chain, while hundreds of thousands of pounds would be generated in extra revenue annually.