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Barratt ensures new homes are on Santa's route

Barratt Manchester is taking unprecedented action to ensure some of its new homes developments are on Santa’s radar this Christmas.

The Five Star housebuilder has been liaising with the team at NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command) to get its newest North West sites onto “Santa-nav” in time for Christmas 2016.

As an extra precaution, the Five Star Housebuilder is also offering complimentary “Santa Stop Here” signs for householders at many of its North West developments to display outside their homes this Christmas Eve. Barratt Manchester is encouraging families to collect the signs from its on-site Sales Office.

Developments placed on the NORAD radar include Riverside View in Lancaster, Hawley Gardens in Thornton-Cleveleys, Cottam Meadow in Preston and Ribble Meadow in Clitheroe.

Barratt Manchester Sales Director, Michaela Lancaster, said: “Having met many of the children who have moved to our newest developments, we know for a fact they will be on Santa’s ‘nice’ list. We would like to reassure children and their parents that rigorous steps have been taken to notify Father Christmas about their new address.”

NORADs dedicated online Santa Tracker has estimated that St. Nicholas will travel an estimated 510 million km on Christmas Eve, flying at around 10 million km per hour in order to make the 233 million stops on his list. His first stop is the Republic of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean and his sleigh will head west around the world before arriving in the UK.

Ms Lancaster added: “Santa has a packed schedule on December 24, so we’re pulling out all the stops to make sure NORAD has fully briefed Mr Claus on the updated route. The new developments have really taken shape since he last flew over, with lots of new families living here, so Santa and his reindeer will have lots to see.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Nicholas Thomson .