Plans to revamp a Staffordshire city street have moved a step closer to reality. Lichfield District Council’s executive committee has approved plans for improvement work.
The revamp will be done in Wade Street, Frog Lane and Castle Dyke and will see the creation of Garrick Square outside the theatre entrance. Work costing £186,000 may start next month with planners wanting to complete by Christmas. It will include cutting the speed limit to 20mph and involve cutting the carriageway width and removing road markings to slow traffic.
The kerb height may be reduced and repaving done so the road and the pavements are the same colour.
The new Garrick Square should be a convenient place for visitors to meet or rest, and will benefit from trees, new street lighting, litter bins and cycle parking.
As well as enhancing the theatre entrance, it is hoped the work would improve access for pedestrians and to help link the main city centre with the proposed Friarsgate shopping development.
They are the first phase of a larger scheme to give the city centre a revamp.
The second phase will include work to Castle Dyke and Frog Lane and will be done when Friarsgate is ready.
Leader of Lichfield council, Councillor David Smith said: “All improvements are necessary at some point.
“The whole thing is being done as phases, this is the first phase.
“What we want to do is when we eventually get to the stage of connecting up with the new shopping centre that it will be done in such a way so there will be no extra disruption. We are trying to minimise disruption to the city as we go.”
It is also part of a larger scheme of repaving and improvements which includes the work done to Market Street and surrounding streets last year.
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