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Chronicle focus on Winchester s High Street and Central Winchester Regeneration - regeneration is a misnomer when applied to this council s progress. Let s start with the High Street - Debenham s, a much liked older department store, is closing and thus is now just a building. Why not repurpose the building as the new surgery for the St Clements practice - it could be operational much quicker than waiting for new-build. Next - the Broadway. Why can t work start immediately on removing the central parking strip, and landscaping the view of King Alfred? Then, the buses - put a bus station in place of the sad Friarsgate car park, entering off Tanner Street and exiting onto Friarsgate - easy to access for laden shoppers, and not interfering with pedestrians in
VICTORIAN building in Winchester once threatened with demolition could become a new business centre. The disused Register Office on Station Hill is set to open as a new “flexible workspace” in the new year, councillors heard. It is part of the city council’s drive to boost business in the Covid-hit city centre. The former Registry Office, formerly the South Western pub, was set for demolition as part of plans to develop the Station Approach area, currently on hold. Andrew Gostelow, service lead economy and tourism, said talks were taking place with an unnamed “third party” and the M3 LEP.