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Architects’ drawing showing the proposed retail shopping centre, which will also house a community hall and car park. Inset the open-plan square where there may be cafes and restaurants
Architects’ drawing showing the proposed retail shopping centre, which will also house a community hall and car park. Inset the open-plan square where there may be cafes and restaurants

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Town in 2013

Ben Turner
6/ 8/2008

NEW images from developers Wilson Bowden show what Macclesfield town centre could look like in 2013.

Revised architects’ drawings and underground plans show the ambitious vision tipped to transform Silk Town’s commercial fortunes.

One image shows the huge open-plan, tree-lined town square complete with a pristine lawn, water feature and seating areas. It is expected to attract cafes and restaurants and be a bustling hub of the new centre. A multi-storey cinema will be built opposite, on Churchill Way.

A second sleek artist’s impression shows the front of the proposed retail shopping centre, which is set to include a food hall, community hall and large car park on the lower ground floor. Behind and not in shot will be a two-storey Debenhams store – considered the anchor of the entire scheme.

Technical drawings – lower ground, ground and first floor – meanwhile show the scale and layout of the development, which will affect a number of existing businesses, including some in Dukes Court, as reported last week.

An outline planning application, including the final "masterplan", is due to be submitted to Macclesfield Borough Council in the Autumn.

There have been growing calls for more details about the eco-friendly credentials of the £220 million project and the application is set to include an environmental impact study, as well as an archaeological survey and traffic assessment.

Construction work will begin in 2011 if the plans get the council’s go-ahead.

Wilson Bowden was bought for £2.2 billion last year by Barratt Developments, which has since seen its own share price plummet by around 90 per cent.


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   Well i dont like it. too modern NO CHARACTER to it. It looks "CHEAP" I can just see the yobbos gathering there with graffiti all over and litter.
mogangirl
8/08/2008 at 23:05
   I can't help feeling this is being pushed through not because it's good for Macc folk but because someone somewhere stands to make an awful lot of money from it. I decided to ask around. It's clear that ordinary local folk are less than happy to have some trendy outsider's square-peg-round-hole vision for their town forced on them.
Tomo From Tythy
8/08/2008 at 11:24
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