Wolverhampton Public Realm
£18M
CONSTRUCTION
VALUE
1.5 YEAR PROJECT
DURATION
CLIENT: WOLVERHAMPTON CITY OUNCIL
80% locally
employed team
Delivering the third phase of Wolverhampton City council’s multi-million pound city centre transformation to create new event spaces, improve public realm and support businesses.
This follows successful delivery of the first two phases of the project as pictured above, and sees improvements in Lichfield Street, Queen Square, Princess Square and Darlington Street.
The overall scheme will provide widened footways to improve both the pedestrian experience and the street scene. They will improve accessibility for all and enable businesses to provide tables and chairs for outdoor service.
This investment in the public realm seeks to boost the city centre economy as the city continues to relight following the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Key Features
- Widened footways
- New trees, planting and street furniture
- Reduced traffic movements for a safer, quieter and less polluted environment
- Continuous cycle routes
- Increased number of coach and bus stops
- New and improved events space for activities
Supporting the community
The team created a welcoming and accessible outside space and access into to The Good Shepard Community Project. This local foodbank supports around 70 families and 130 people with a meal each week and the works ensured that the outside waiting space was a cleaner, safer and more child friendly environment that could be easily accessed by everyone.
Cycling success
Wolverhampton hosted the cycling time trial as part of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022. The chosen route came through the city centre and the public realm works and so the team completed paving in a number of roads to facilitate a much wider and attractive events space for the ‘festival’ hosted on the old Market Square, enabling the public to start using the new street scene.