Summary
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Letchworth Garden City - The next steps for the Town Centre
- Exciting new plans to revitalise Letchworth Garden City Town Centre, brought to you by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation.
- These proposals are designed to transform the town centre into a vibrant place in which to shop, live, work and spend leisure time.
Town Centre Problems
- The retail offer doesn’t meet the needs of local residents.
- The lack of clothing, footwear and mixed goods stores means you often have to go elsewhere.
- Not enough national stores.
- Dated and run down shopping areas.
- Poor quality, confusing car parking.
- Fragmented shopping areas.
- Stevenage, Hitchin and others have multi-million pound plans to improve their town centres.
Town Centre Solutions
- Bigger and better retail units designed to attract major retailers.
- A wider range of smaller, better units to support existing and attract new independent retailers.
- Good quality, convenient car parking.
- Improved street scene and shopping environment.
- Family friendly focus, including specific attractions such as a children’s play centre.
The Arena Parade, Broadway and Eastcheap Redevelopment
- Combination of small and large shops addressing the needs of both national chain stores and local independents. Apartments above.
- New retailers in categories such as clothing, footwear, home and mixed goods.
- Restaurant and food piazza.
- New semi-basement car parking.
- A new Garden City Museum of international standing and the Tourist Information Centre located in the refurbished Town Hall.
The Wynd Redevelopment
- New range of quality space for speciality retailing.
- A family friendly focus, including a major high quality children’s play centre.
- New residential property.
- New integrated shopping environment.
Proposals to improve street scene and roads
- Contemporary design using simple clean forms inspired by the character of Letchworth.
- Streets laid with stone.
- Steel and aluminium street furniture, supported by hedging adding that all-important element of green.
- Subtle lighting creating interest and a comfort zone after dark.
- New 40° nose-in ‘short stay’ parking spaces in Eastcheap and Leys Avenue.