Plans to fill '˜void' left by closure of Corcrain Community Centre

Floral tributes left for Caitlin White (Shortland) at Corcrain woodland.

The sale of Corcrain Community Centre five years ago has left a void in the area which the council needs to act quickly to fill, a youth and community worker has said.

Campbell Best, who runs the Y-Zone outreach group, said the recent death of Caitlin White (Shortland) in the estate’s woodland area had brought the situation to a head.

Mr Best said, “The Corcrain/Redmanville area is the biggest PUL (Protestant, unionist,loyalist) area in Portadown, yet when the council closed the community centre they put nothing back in its place.