Heritage group calls for changes to plans for Shrewsbury's Riverside redevelopment
A heritage group is calling for changes to plans for one of the county's most ambitious and prominent redevelopment projects.
Shrewsbury Civic Society has given its verdict on the latest proposals for the redevelopment of Shrewsbury's Riverside.
The area is the subject of large-scale rebuilding plans, with Shropshire Council looking to create an ambitious new modern multi-use riverside destination.
The former Riverside Shopping Centre has been demolished ahead of the plans, with the first in a series of planning applications already approved.
The first stage was approved by the council's planning committee last March.
That application provides permission for the authority to create a new public park next to Roushill, including 'pocket gardens, event space and an amphitheatre'.
A second application - for far more significant developments of the site, was submitted by the council in November last year.
That proposal, which is yet to be approved, requests permission to reshape a large area of the demolition site, with the creation of a large 6,500 square metre podium which will be home to three large plots - numbered plots 3, 5, and 6.
