Creating Your New Rochdale Town Centre
Rochdale town centre is being
transformed.
We are creating a town centre with fantastic
leisure, shopping, cultural and learning opportunities for
residents and visitors to enjoy.
Consultation has been taking place on the new retail and
leisure development. Initial ideas include space for a new
supermarket and a department store along with lots more quality
shops, leisure facilities and better car parking. To find out more
about the proposals, visit the wesbite:
Creating
your new Rochdale Town Centre - have your say!
Our long-term vision for the town centre is set out in our
draft masterplan but change is already happening:
- The new £26m Sixth Form College will
open in September. It’s the first new sixth form college to open in
Britain since 2003. This will bring around 1,000 students into
the town centre, creating a great
buzz!
- Work on the new £11.5 million transport
interchange on Smith Street that will link in with
Metrolink will get underway in autumn this year. The building will
replace the outdated bus station and will bring people into the
town centre in style.
- A large site, also on Smith Street, is being cleared for
the new council offices that will also be home to a new
‘one stop’ customer service centre and fantastic public
library. Due to open in 2012, this will change the skyline
of the town centre.
- When the new interchange is open and
council staff have moved into the new building, the Municipal
Offices, Telegraph House and the bus station will be demolished to
make way for the proposed new multi-million pound retail
development.
- Plans for a new state-of-the-art
swimming pool and sports complex adjacent to the current Central
Leisure site on Entwistle Road are starting to take shape. The
fantastic new leisure facility is scheduled to open in 2012. For
further information on the scheme, contact the Special Projects
Team on Tel: 01706 92 or Email: Special Projects
Team
- Aldi is opening a new supermarket on
Entwistle Road later this year. The store will provide 960 sq m of
retail space.Each of these projects is ambitious and bold. Together
they will contribute to our achieving our vision for Rochdale town
centre to be:
“Attractive, vibrant and revitalised [with] an excellent range
and choice of shopping, leisure, living, working and cultural
facilities that meets the needs of, and provides a focal point for,
the Borough. Rochdale will be established as a major sub regional
shopping centre and destination for the North West”.