The two stair-cores for the new car park have been decorated with artwork designed by Chester mural artist Graham Boyd with help from other local artists. The stairs cover each of the car park’s seven floors and have been hand painted with unique murals depicting some famous and less well-known aspects of the city’s culture […]
With less than five months until the new market is expected to open, Cheshire West and Chester Council can announce the second tranche of traders taking stalls. Eleven further stalls are now contracted or are under offer to trade, with five taken by existing Chester Market traders, and one by a business relocating from the […]
Students from Chester Blue Coat CE Primary School, Queen’s Park High School and The Queen’s School have each buried a time capsule in the new Exchange Square in the heart of the Northgate development. The capsules contain a wide selection of artefacts that the students selected to provide future generations with an insight into life […]
The Council’s Northgate development contractors will be carrying out a series of highways works around the site during May and June to provide access for pedestrians, public transport and vehicles, as construction nears completion. The works have been scheduled to minimise their impact on through traffic and to avoid forthcoming city centre events, race meetings […]
Twenty swift ‘hotels’ are being installed in the Northgate car park brickwork, they will help reverse the decline of swifts in Chester, along with 2 bat boxes also. Cllr. Samantha Dixon, Chair of the Northgate Joint Member Working Group with John Dearnley and Roger Nutter, from Chester RSPB, came to meet the Vinci site team […]
The complex and challenging task of tunnelling under the city centre has now been completed. The new drain is a major future-proof environmental investment by Cheshire West and Chester Council in the city’s recovery from the pandemic, and an essential requirement ahead of major regeneration schemes, including the Northgate development currently under construction and set […]
