Restoration of Consett Victorian park, through the aid of the Heritage Lottery Fund, increases public use and amenities.

Winner of the Hadrian Awards, 2003: A timber courtyard extension to The Old Vicarage at Laithkirk is commended for stretching the boundaries of design and responding sensitively to the historic context of the original building.

Crook former mining town-assisting diversification and regeneration of the centre through the aid of the Wear Valley District Council Crook Regeneration Strategy and Historic Economic Regeneration Scheme (HERS).