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Children Come Up With Winning Home Designs
The district's householders
and council tax-payers of the future were recently asked to design
their 'ideal home' in a drawing competition being organised by the
council's Housing section. Over 200 entries were
submitted from children right across the district aged between 5
and 14.
There were some outstanding entries in all of the age groups
and some very imaginative drawings of homes with swimming pools,
stables and even a helicopter landing pad.
But the winning design came from 13 year-old Freddie Smithson
of Knaresborough whose aerial design of a grand house
nestling on a Riverside stood out from all the other
entries. Freddie had also taken the initiative
of showing his design appearing as the front page of the Tenants'
Handbook where indeed it will be
displayed.
Not many children get the opportunity to visit the Mayor of
the Borough in their own 'civic home' at the Council's Offices, but
Freddie and all the other age group winners and their parents have
been invited to take a peep in the Mayor's Parlour at 4.00 pm
Tuesday, 19 July when the Mayor, Councillor Caroline Bayliss, will
present Freddie with his prize of a CD/hi-fi
system. The other age group winners will get
prizes generously donated by Lightwater Valley, Asda, Morrisons,
The Rocking Horse, Early Learning Centre, W H Smith, UK Superbowl
and Odeon Cinema.
ENDS
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: 4.00 pm Tuesday, 19
July 2005, Mayor's Parlour, Council Offices, Harrogate.
FURTHER INFORMATION Please contact Amy Jones, Tenant
Involvement Officer on 01423 551619.