Key components
Retail and Leisure
- Provision of at least 50,000 sq m of additional retail and leisure space in the central core through development of both new and existing shopping areas
- Secure a major new department store
- Broaden the retail offer to encourage both larger national chains and small independents to establish outlets in the town centre
Residential
- Create residential space over shops to help provide activity throughout the day and evening
Urban Design and Movement
- Improvement of pedestrian routes to create a lively and appealing retail circuit with better linkages either side of Regent Street to adjoining areas
- Enhancements to the environment of the traditional retail areas including The Parade, Canal Walk, Regent Street, Bridge Street and Wharf Green with improvements to paving, planting, street furniture and lighting
- Improvements to existing shopper parking facilities and the provision of new multi-storey facilities to replace many of the surface car parks and accommodate the projected increase in shopper numbers