Peterlee

Peterlee is a small town in County Durham, England. It was established in 1948, and worked under the sponsorship of the New Towns Act 1946. It has monetary and network ties with Sunderland, Hartlepool and Durham. The case for Peterlee was advanced in Farewell Squalor by Easington Rural District Council Surveyor C.W. Clarke, who additionally suggested that the town was named after the observed Durham excavators' pioneer Peter Lee.

Peterlee is special among the new towns which appeared after the Second World War in that it was the just a single asked for by the general population through their MP. A delegation, for the most part if not every working mineworker, met with the Minister of Town and Country Planning after the Second World War to put the case for another town in the area. The Minister, Lewis Silkin, reacted by offering a half-measure new town of 30,000 inhabitants. The consequent new inhabitants came to a great extent from the encompassing towns in the District of Easington. Williams welcomed a craftsman Victor Pasmore to be leader of the outline group for the finishing.