St Stephen’s Place and Castle Place

Recent History

The St Stephen’s Place site is located adjacent to the retail core of Trowbridge town centre and is a key development site within the town.  The site in the past accommodated a Tesco supermarket, although the site has remained vacant since the relocation of Tesco to another site elsewhere in the town.  The St Stephen’s Place site has long been recognised as an opportunity to improve the attractiveness and health of Trowbridge town centre and has been allocated in the adopted West Wiltshire District Local Plan First Alteration for retail, leisure and other town centre uses.  Following the failure to progress previous redevelopment schemes, during  2008 the former West Wiltshire District Council agreed to pursue a Compulsory Purchase Order against the site owners. This resulted in the site being taken back into administration by  Westdeutsche ImmobilienBank who were keen to facilitate its regeneration.

As a result of this recognised potential, the Bank appointed GVA Grimley Ltd  (in late 2008) to work in co-operation with West Wiltshire District Council (‘WWDC’) and Wiltshire County Council (‘WCC’) to prepare a Planning Brief. This was used to inform the preparation of development proposals for the site and act as a material planning consideration for the local planning authority when determining planning applications.  In addition, this Brief assisted with the marketing of the St Stephen’s Place site for redevelopment.

The site was put on the market in early 2009 which resulted in its purchase by the Legal & General UK Property Trust in Spring 2009.

Transforming Trowbridge and Wiltshire Council are committed to progressing the development of St Stephens Place and have been working closely with Legal and General to obtain the right development for Trowbridge

Site proposal

During Summer 2011 a new development proposal for the site began to emerge. Through discussions with Transforming Trowbridge and Wiltshire Council the following concept was brought forward:

 

Click here to view display boards showing the site proposals

Latest News

Click here to read our latest news as published on www.shopping-centre.co.uk

Click here to read our latest news as published in the Wiltshire Times

Click here to read more more about Trowbridge cinema and leisure park plans which have been given the go-ahead. As published on the BBC News Wiltshire website