image for illustration: Newcastle-under-Lyme: Midway multi-storey car park by Jonathan Hutchins, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Plans by social impact developer Capital & Centric to turn a former car park, shopping centre and derelict brownfield land in Newcastle-under-Lyme into pioneering urban neighbourhoods have been given the green light.
Capital & Centric writes:
Rather than demolishing… giving them a major reboot, and creating one-of-a-kind residential led-neighbourhoods. It’s thought to be the first time in the UK that a car park or shopping centre has been repurposed in this way and shows a radical approach to urban placemaking…
