CIRENCESTER TOWN CENTRE DRAFT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT
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The draft SPD focuses on traffic and environmental issues within Cirencester town centre and will be instrumental in helping to shape the longer-term future of the town centre. This document is now out for a six week period of public consultation, starting on Friday 22nd February 2008. The closing date for comments is 5pm, Friday 4th April 2008.
Its proposals include:
- A review of parking, to provide more spaces in fewer car parks, with the redevelopment of some existing parking for other uses;
- Prioritising pedestrians over traffic in the main shopping streets;
- Transferring unnecessary through traffic onto the ring road;
- Improvements for pedestrians, cyclists and to public transport, including better links within and to the town centre;
- Improvements to road safety and the possible transfer of buses from the Market Place to improved facilities at South Way/The Forum
- Improving the appearance of the public realm, particularly Market Place, Cricklade Street, Black Jack Street and Dyer Street; and
- Rationalisation and improvement of signage, street furniture and paving.
Hard copies of the draft SPD, together with supporting Sustainability Appraisal documents and Consultation Statement, can be viewed at:
- Cotswold District Council offices, Trinity Road, Cirencester
- Cotswold District Council Area Centre, High Street, Moreton-in-Marsh
- Cirencester Town Council offices, Dyer Street, Cirencester
- All County libraries within Cotswold District, including Cirencester Bingham Library (temporarily re-housed in Beeches car park)
