{"id":44076,"date":"2025-09-12T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44076"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:09:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:09:46","slug":"ihbcs-heritage-from-the-industry-doorstep-former-carpark-and-shopping-centre-to-be-transformed-into-new-homes-in-a-uk-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44076","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s \u2018Heritage from the (industry) doorstep\u2019: Former carpark and shopping centre to be transformed into new homes \u2018in a UK first\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1024px-Newcastle-under-Lyme_Midway_multi-storey_car_park_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4317518_Jonathan_Hutchins_commons_wiki_120925.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1024px-Newcastle-under-Lyme_Midway_multi-storey_car_park_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4317518_Jonathan_Hutchins_commons_wiki_120925.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1024px-Newcastle-under-Lyme_Midway_multi-storey_car_park_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4317518_Jonathan_Hutchins_commons_wiki_120925.png 1024w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1024px-Newcastle-under-Lyme_Midway_multi-storey_car_park_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4317518_Jonathan_Hutchins_commons_wiki_120925-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1024px-Newcastle-under-Lyme_Midway_multi-storey_car_park_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_4317518_Jonathan_Hutchins_commons_wiki_120925-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><sub>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Newcastle-under-Lyme,Midway_multi-storey_car_park-geograph.org.uk-_4317518.jpg\">Newcastle-under-Lyme: Midway multi-storey car park<\/a> by\u00a0Jonathan Hutchins, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plans by social impact developer Capital &amp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Capital &amp; Centric writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than demolishing\u2026 giving them a major reboot, and creating one-of-a-kind residential led-neighbourhoods. It\u2019s 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\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalandcentric.com\/journal\/former-carpark-and-shopping-centre-to-be-transformed-into-new-homes-in-a-uk-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Newcastle-under-Lyme: Midway multi-storey car park by\u00a0Jonathan Hutchins, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Plans by social impact developer Capital &amp; Centric to turn a former car park, shopping centre and derelict brownfield land in Newcastle-under-Lyme into pioneering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44076\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,6,256,30,518,16,65,45],"class_list":["post-44076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-architecture","tag-building","tag-development","tag-environment","tag-neighbourhood","tag-planning","tag-refurbishment","tag-urban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44078,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44076\/revisions\/44078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}