May

Work is underway on vital ‘Street Scene’ improvements for Letchworth Garden City’s two main shopping streets.

Major changes on Eastcheap and Leys Avenue will transform their ‘look and feel’.

Leys Square is being extended with new landscaped seating areas, attractive water features and sculptures between the ‘square’ and The Colonnade, opposite Letchworth Garden City railway station.

Beyond the Street Scene works on Eastcheap and Leys Avenue, the Foundation is investing massive sums to improve Town Centre shop premises.

Letchworth Garden City Town Centre has many fine buildings. Yet over the years, the combination of inappropriate alterations, low-grade materials and garish signage has taken its toll on the attraction of some parts of the Town Centre.

Working with retailers and businesses, the Foundation is taking steps to arrest the decline.

On behalf of Alan Scouller, Chairman of the Heritage Foundation and myself, can I thank the 230 plus people who attended the annual Garden City Meeting in the Spirella Ballroom on 9th May.

Plans to regenerate the heart of the world's first Garden City, by Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, held centre stage at the Annual Garden City Meeting, in the Spirella Ballroom, on Thursday 18 May 2006.