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Stockport. Change Here Development Prospectus Stockport. Change here. Contents Live Work Play Connect We’re falling in love again with the heart of Stockport. Our town centre revival started some time ago but now it’s full steam ahead, with a radical and exciting £1billion programme of investment. In our town centre you’ll find beautiful heritage buildings next to great new architecture. Businesses are relocating here, residents are moving in and jobs are being created. Public spaces are improving, transport connections are being boosted and a buzz is in the air. On the pages that follow we’ll outline the people and projects that are making this transformation happen. Led by Stockport Council but with a wide range of partners involved, a renaissance is sweeping across Stockport town centre including new events, great attractions and fantastic reasons for people to venture back into town. From underbank to overpass, viaduct to brewery visitor centre, Stockport town centre is bouncing back to life. stockportchangehere.org 1 Stockport. Change here. Contents Live Work Play Connect Page 7 Page 16 Page 35 Page 58 Wherever I Stockport Exchange Te Light, movie, action A transport renaissance lay my hat New £145million Improving the town’s in Stockport Improving the business district retail potential Improving Stockport’s residential ofer in transport infrastucture the town centre Page 18 Page 36 musicMagpie Feast of fun Page 60 Page 9 Te global e-commerce Boosting the economy Transforming the A question phenomenon and uniting the town daily commute of restoration Living in a greener, Te past and future Page 20 Page 38 leafer town of Market Place Te Sky’s the limit Te Plaza and Underbanks Te frst regional An Art Deco gem Page 62 contact centre for On the right track Page 10 the telecoms giant Page 47 Investing in transport, Take fve Te legacy of investing in jobs Arts and cultural assets Page 22 Strawberry Studios Empowering the Jane Weaver & Andy Votel Page 64 Page 13 next generation Improving A vibrant future Training and Page 51 access for all Stockport’s retail ofer development Homegrown talent Te Town Centre Blossoms: defned by Access Plan Page 24 their home town Old town, new tricks Page 66 Transforming the Page 48 Stockport stories town’s culinary scene A fne vintage Our transformation Te town’s unique at a glance Page 26 independent shops Destination Stockport Where Te Light Gets In Page 52 Go outdoors Page 28 Exploring Stockport’s Business is brewing natural environment A national reputation for variety and quality Page 54 Te great outdoors at your back door Active leisure 24 64 6 36 Stockport ofers a great quality of life, with a quirky, original town centre. It is close to city centre Manchester but also on the edge of the Peak District. 2 Contents Live Work Play Connect 3 Stockport. Live. Live. The heart of Stockport is becoming a really great place to live with new residential developments and improved public spaces. The town centre living offer is changing. The architectural story is old meets new with unique topography and great proximity to transport links. Interesting and varied green space and public parks can be found all around Stockport, with the River Mersey flowing right through the town, all adding to its appeal. There are outstanding educational establishments from pre-school through to sixth form and beyond. Te centre of Stockport is undergoing a radical £1billion programme of investment. 4 Contents Live Work Play Connect 5 Stockport. Live. Residential Wherever I lay my hat Improving the residential offer in the town centre Some of the towns’ recent and future housing developments Moving house is supposed to be one of the most stressful things you can do in your life, but for Emma Nosurak, she moved house and Edward Street relocated her business to Stockport within a matter of weeks. “I was 30 New walking around Stockport one day and I just thought ‘it’ s really nice. units Tenure I’m going to end up living here,”’ says Emma. “I like the charm of the Private rent place. It reminds me of somewhere like York or Harrogate, it has a lot Property type of potential. 1 & 2 bed apartments 53 Lee Street Police Station units “I have settled in to the town and work is going well. Plant Shop is a On site great environment and because I had already established my business, Tenure the move has gone well and customers have followed me here.” Private rent Emma moved into the Hopes Carr development in Stockport this Property type summer. Hopes Carr is the frst element in the Covent Garden Village, Apartments a mixed-tenure residential urban village that will deliver 250 new homes, new shops and a park in the heart of the town centre. 74 Covent Garden units Stockport Council is working in partnership with Seddon to deliver On site the new neighbourhood. Designed by architects Bowker Sadler, the Tenure fve-storey block of 46 new apartments is owned and managed by Private rent, market Stockport Homes. sale and shared Emma says: “It suits me. I can walk to work. It’s in a great location, ownership close to the town centre. Te train station is a few minutes away with Property type direct links to London and I can get to Manchester Airport when I Houses and apartments need to go to Europe.” 113 Charles Street units On site Tenure “I was walking around Stockport one day Shared ownership and afordable rent and I just thought I’m going to end up Property type Houses and apartments living here. I like the charm of the place.” 17 Hopes Carr units Both phases are part Emma Nosurak, Hopes Carr resident and owner of Plant Shop completed/part planning 36 Tenure units Shared ownership and As well as running Plant Shop, Emma is also bookings manager for afordable rent Craig Charles and was part of the team producing his BBC 6 Music Property type radio show, Te Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show. Mostly houses, “It is busy. I have worked with Craig for a few years now and he’s with two apartments very popular. Plant Shop doubles up as my ofce and, when I need to, I can get to Manchester or Liverpool easily. I also manage a band and 59 St Tomas Hospital that means I sometimes go to Europe, too.” units On site Emma doesn’t have a lot of free time but says that she likes to get Tenure her breakfast at the nearby Tandem café. Shared ownership “I’m still exploring and discovering new places. Working here is and afordable rent great. It’s fresh and people are friendly. Selling plants is a great thing Property type as people buy them and look afer them and that is rewarding.” Houses and apartments Hopes Carr resident Emma Nosurak, who also owns local business Plant Shop; the former Peaches building; and external views of the Hopes Carr housing development. 6 Contents Live Work Play Connect 7 Stockport. Live. Heritage A question of restoration The past and future of the Market Place and Underbanks “It ’ s the ups and the downs that define Stockport, the steps and the brows,” explains Kevin Dranfield of Stockport Heritage Trust from their centre at St Mary’ s Parish Church in the Market Place – parts of which form the oldest building in the town. Stockport has the longest running market in its Working with the Heritage Trust, Stockport Council original location in the North West of England. has now secured £1.8million from the Heritage Kevin explains, “Its location is a natural trading Lottery Fund for ‘Rediscovering the Underbanks’. place: sited on a promontory close to the ford that Tis project will focus on the repair and reuse of crossed the River Mersey. Tat would have enabled the historic buildings, working in partnership with people to cross the river and set out their wares. property owners, investors and local businesses. “It became more ofcial in the thirteenth Century St Petersgate Bridge crosses Little Underbank and when the Earl of Chester created a charter for the from here, children have stood on the structure to market, making Stockport the most important market watch the automaton clock on the old Winter’s town in the area. Ten the Victorians came and created jewellery shop, which is now a pub. the glass umbrella over the covered market in 1861.” Nearby is the huge White Lion pub, the upper foors One stallholder was Ephraim Marks whose brother of which are now being transformed into residential became one half of Marks & Spencer. It is rumoured accommodation as part of a wider redevelopment that Ephraim requested the glass umbrella be flled programme for Stockport, with £7million investment with timber to create a more weather-proof structure, from Stockport Council into the Market Place and which was developed in the 1890s to create the market Underbanks. Te investment will see more residential hall of today. development, creating new homes in Lower Hillgate, Nearby is Staircase House, a Grade II listed building Russell Morley House and Dumville Brow. which has undergone restoration. It gets its name Turning into Great Underbank, you approach from its distinctive Jacobean cage newell staircase Underbank Hall, an imposing ffeenth century and ofers a glimpse into medieval Stockport. building that still stands. If you take a turn out of the Market Place and Te Grade II listed Produce Hall has a new anchor descend Mealhouse Brow passing the Old Dungeon, tenant, enhancing the award-winning and vibrant which was used as Stockport’s lock-up from medieval events programme, which currently includes Foodie times, you will come to Little Underbank.
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