I live there and I’ve never noticed that sign before.
I never even recognised the “centre” as a centre.
I live 2 mins walk from the leisure centre n all
For me it’s just a housing estate, not a town or anything. Just houses.
Again I don’t mean to offend…. Just my opinion
Thats fine, you're entitled to it & I am certainly not offended by it - but its an opinion at the end of the day. Away from opinions, the fact is it is a town, its recognised by a town by SBC, it has its own town council, its own town council budget etc, and the centre was always planned in even from the initial town plan.
People can think what they like about it but it is, in fact, a town. If it wasn't a town, the next settlement size in the UK would would have to be a village - it isn't a village. The individual areas of ingleby are known as villages, but quite clearly arent. It's a housing estate many say - but is it? A housing estate is a strange made up construct. Every town is basically a housing estate. New housing estates are built all the time but generally fall into a town and become adopted by that town once they transition into council control, for example the rings developments are current new housing estates in Ingleby, theyre still in ingleby though.
Except Ingleby wasn't all built at the same time, it's been getting built for decades and it's still got houses being built- just like most other towns, and certainly not all planned at the same time. They've all been built by different builders, different landowners etc.
It shares a post code with thornaby, and part of it was built on the old edges of Thornaby, but it definitely isn't in Thornaby any more than Nunthorpe is in Marton or hemlington is in coulby newham. marton, nunthorpe and ormesby all share TS7 - I wouldnt really put ormesby and marton together. TS16 Yarm & Hutton rudby? its 6 miles away!