The scheme was delivered by a partnership between MVDC, Surrey County Council (SCC) and Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership (C2C LEP).
One of the objectives of the scheme is to provide a better environment for all the businesses in Church Street, including the newly arrived Waitrose store and the long established Leatherhead Theatre. To celebrate the history of the Theatre, the Leatherhead Residents’ Association and the Fire and Iron Gallery enabled five commemorative stones to be laid recognising some of the most lauded performers from the Theatre’s history, including Sir Michael Caine and Richard Briers. Since completion, Church Street has hosted Halloween, Christmas and Easter celebrations.
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Retail experts Cushman and Wakefield have developed a Master Plan for the long-term development of the Swan Centre, to act as a catalyst to revitalise the High Street.
We are now procuring a partner to redevelop the Swan Centre according to this plan. This will create a local destination with:
A public consultation took place in July 2019 to improve the High Street. The suggested proposals had been developed following discussions with key stakeholders.
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A vital, prosperous High Street that can easily facilitate events is one of Transform Leatherhead’s key objectives. The High Street Improvement Proposals aim to address these objectives.
There were just under 300 respondents to our consultation, over 90% of which were residents, employees and business owners within Leatherhead, Ashtead and Fetcham and the rest nearby neighbours.
The options consulted upon were developed through the High Street Improvement study and engagement with a wide range of key stakeholders, including local businesses, residents, access groups and Surrey County Council.
In June 2018 the outline plan was approved for a landmark building replacing the old office blocks. The plan included proposals for:
For full details please view the application via the MVDC Planning Application Portal www.molevalley.gov.uk/planningsearch ›› using reference MO/2018/1983.
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The first phase of the Riverside Park will begin as part of the Claire House and James House redevelopment. For full details please view the application via the MVDC Planning Application Portal www.molevalley.gov.uk/planningsearch using reference MO/2018/1983.
The current preferred way forward from the Environment Agency is to reduce the impacts of both river and surface water flooding in this area by a property level flood resilience scheme. Property level flood resilience offers more benefits to properties than the other options considered. They are in the process of working to deliver this scheme with affected residents.
A Reconfigure Leret Way/North Street/Bull Hill junction to provide signalised pedestrian/cyclist crossing.
B Remove pedestrian crossing on Station Road (as there will now be a new pedestrian/cyclist crossing as indicated above).
C Make an access only section on North Street for buses & deliveries.
D Close Bull Hill from Kingston Road to Leret Way junction.
E Create new one-way southbound link road from Randalls Road to Station Road.
F Station Road and Leret Way more likely to be used by local traffic. Introduce an improved sustainable route.
G Assess the impact of introducing two-way traffic on the gyratory.
The proposed Randalls Road cycle path intended to provide sustainable transport links has had to be stopped because:
Following detailed modelling by Surrey County Council, the scheme did not reach the level eligible for funding from Coast to Capital LEP and:
Alternative options for sustainable transport improvements are currently being investigated in line with the Transport Study traffic modelling (see below) and the development opportunities within Leatherhead Town Centre as part of Transform Leatherhead. These options will require various funding mechanisms which will form part of any business case.
The current Bull Hill make up is of office space, car parks and open space.
The original Masterplan idea was to create a ‘retail core extension’ - retail uses in the southeast corner of the Bull Hill site providing a continuation and link in to the retail uses within the town centre core.
Following the Swan Centre and transport studies it is proposed to move to a different mix of uses.
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