• Build the suspension bridge. It will make Barney a destination town.
• Geoff, Barney businessman
• I'm encouraged that the Vision is going to invest in the town's streetscape. The Town Council will keep Barney clean and tidy. We need retailers to help too.
• Councillor John Watson
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Leadership

We are establishing a Leadership Forum – a programme of events between November 2007 and March 2008. The events will bring together major players from different sectors locally, regionally and nationally to share in and develop the Vision, to build a bank of potential investors, to ensure private sector involvement and to achieve inspirational input from key public sector leaders.

The Forum is critical to ensuring that what happens in Barnard Castle learns from best practice elsewhere. It will provide an opportunity to influence and call upon the experience and knowledge of key stakeholders both regionally and nationally. It may also lead to the identification of potential private investors. In addition the Leadership Forum will act as important PR tool to communicate the work of the Vision nationally.

The Leadership Forum will also provide independent evaluation of the impact and success of the Vision