Stockports Merseyway Shopping Center. Image: ABNM Photography
Submitted by the Stockport Council
The Stockport Council launched a new survey to seek input from residents on new plans to transform empty retail units into an innovative new space for learning and discovery.
As part of the proposals to make the city center a more family-friendly place, the council asks parents, grandparents and carers for input.
The working title for the new concept is Stockroom – and the Stockport Council’s vision is a place where families across generations can spend time together.
Stockroom will offer a welcoming new arrival point in the center of the city and will be equipped with new, state-of-the-art changing and toilet facilities.
The council has secured £ 14.5 million from the government’s Future High Street Scheme for the stockroom concept and would like to hear directly from local residents, including parents with young families, to deepen their thoughts.
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Part of the new program will be a designated family zone that will be freely accessible. The city council team is keen to investigate a number of uses this could include.
The council also wants to hear new ideas from residents and is particularly keen that these new facilities help improve children’s development, health and access later in life.
The engagement team will be in the city center on the weekends of July 24th and 31st and will be equipped with tablets to record responses from passers-by.
As Stockport in the Greater Manchester area continues this next major step in creating a more family-friendly city center, the council is excited to welcome a range of city center activities in the coming weeks, starting with the return of the Gigantic Leap Frog Art Trail for 2021 with 21 brand new ones , giant frogs scattered all over the city center.
Cllr David Meller, Cabinet Member for Economy and Regeneration, said, “We want to encourage people to rediscover the city center and what could be better than taking part in a free fun family activity. We want children and young people to find the city center inviting and safe.
“The more families we talk to, the better we can take their needs and wishes into account when designing Stockroom.
“We want people to tell us what activities and services they would most like to see in Stockroom and I encourage everyone to take the online survey.”
You can find the survey online here.
