Doxford Park

Doxford Park is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, located to the south-west of the city centre. Doxford Park is also the name of a wooded area of land located within the suburb.Doxford City FC was founded in 2017 by Stephen Pescod and Reece McEwan.Doxford Park has been built up in stages from the mid-1960s onwards, original proposals calling the area "Silksworth Township". It is surrounded by the A19 to the west, farmland to the south, Silksworth to the North, and Tunstall to the east. It is bisected by the B1286 Doxford Park Way dual carriageway.Many of the houses in Doxford Park were becoming unsafe and uneconomic to repair so Gentoo is undertaking a massive programme of renewal to redevelop the estate.Renamed 'Beckwith Green' the development has been split into 6 phases with phases 1 to 3 of the project now complete. Plans for a new £11.6m retirement village on the Beckwith Green development were announced by Gentoo, and will be phase 4 of the regeneration program. Work is due to start on this phase in March 2013 and be completion in mid-2014.The plans for Phase 4 include 40 extra care apartments, 40 apartments and 14 bungalows. The aim is to create a village where residents can continue to live independently but with support always to hand.Planning permission for phase 5 of the regeneration program was submitted to Sunderland Council in Nov 2012 - however there has been no confirmation from Gentoo as to when construction on phase 5 will commence.