Friarsgate development

Since the submission of the formal planning application in June 2006, a number of changes have been made to the Planning Application including:

• The height of the hotel has been lowered
  
• The heights of the shopping mall and the department store have both been lowered
  
• Designs for the buildings that face toward St. John's hospital have been revised, including the removal of a storey
  
• A new pedestrian pathway has been added next to TJ Hughes providing a further level, accessible, way into the development

News

• Lichfield District Council has published a compulsory purchase order for the Friarsgate site. Find out more about the order and what properties are affected.
  
  
• The Government Office for the West Midlands have decided not to call the application in for their approval.
  
  
• We are please to announce that Debenhams has been named as the Friarsgate anchor store. To find out more, see the article from the Winter 2006 editon of InTouch.
  
  
• The scheme was approved in a meeting of the Planning Committee on 31st October 2006. To read the results, visit our online agendas, minutes and reports section.