Cheshire East has shelved its original plans to develop Crewe’s Royal Arcade because of soaring costs, writes Belinda Ryan.
And instead it will look at temporarily using the site for “meanwhile uses” to attract footfall into the town.
Dear Editor,
In 2018 Crewe residents were promised a £48m Royal Arcade masterplan, a new cinema, gym, restaurants, shops, a 450 space multi storey car park and a new bus station, off Victoria Street and Queensway, by Christmas 2020.
We are now in 2023 and what have we got?
A temporary bus station will be in use in Crewe from Wednesday January 4 as work to complete the first phase of the Cheshire East Council’s Royal Arcade scheme enters the next stage.
The existing bus station will be closed and eight temporary bus stands will operate alongside temporary passenger shelters, cycle stands and facilities for bus drivers.
Dear Editor,
Cheshire East are planning to close and build housing on two of the main car parks in Crewe town centre, Delamere Street and Chester Street.
The lost car parking spaces will be replaced by a six-storey 390 place car park, on the Royal Arcade development site in the town centre, costing Cheshire East taxpayers a huge £11,315,315.
Dear Editor,
So Cheshire East Council has commissioned a huge public art piece to adorn the side of the Royal Arcade Bus Station as we were told by a fellow Crewe Councillor at Wednesday’s full Council meeting!
Elected members at the meeting looked bemused – many of us knew nothing about it! (It appears we missed the email sent out late the previous afternoon).
Dear Editor,
Crewe town centre’s Royal Arcade re-development is stalled before it has even begun.
We were promised that work would begin in January. We are now told it will be nearly May before building work begins.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Building work will begin in January on Crewe’s new bus station and multi-storey car park and the scheme should be completed by August 2023 now planning permission has been granted.
That was the claim of the agent representing the developer at Wednesday’s meeting of Cheshire East’s strategic planning board.
By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Residents have until September 10 to register views on changes made to the Royal Arcade development in Crewe.
And among the changes are the addition of two large panels of green wall of the car park facing Delamere Street.
The redevelopment of the Royal Arcade site in Crewe will take another step forward this week as a public consultation on the plans gets underway.
Details of the proposed scheme for a new bus station, multi-storey car park, cinema, bowling centre, gym, restaurants, cafes and bars will go on display ahead of a planning application being submitted in April.
Crewe Heritage Centre has come to the rescue of the town’s iconic clock “Big Bill”.
The clock was dismantled as part of the Royal Arcade demolition to make way for a new development.
Dear Editor,
The demolition of Crewe’s vacant Royal Arcade shopping centre has begun.
‘Putting Crewe First’ says that the site should be used as a convenient town centre car park, until it is needed for redevelopment, to encourage shoppers back into the town, after the four week lockdown closure of all non-food shops.
Demolition of vacant shops at Crewe’s Royal Arcade site has started, marking a significant milestone in the town’s transformation.
Plant and machinery arrived on site this week to begin the demolition works.
A development agreement between Cheshire East Council and Peveril Securities Ltd marks a big step forward in Crewe’s transformation of the Royal Arcade site, council chiefs say.
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