Questions raised over £60m business park
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
Fresh questions about David Abrahams's donations to the Labour Party have been raised by MPs after it emerged that he is behind a £60 million business park granted planning permission after he gave £160,000 to the party.
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Plans for the 540-acre Durham Green Business Park were originally turned down by the Highways Agency on the grounds that it would cause too much congestion on the A1.
But last year the Highways Agency, which answers to the Department for Transport, removed its objections. The local Labour council approved the scheme.
On Oct 19 last year a new company was set up to develop the site, called Durham Green Developments. It has only two directors, Ray Ruddick and Janet Kidd, the two employees of David Abrahams through whom he made donations of nearly £400,000 to Labour.
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