Regeneration

Madeley Centre

The regeneration of Madeley Town Centre is currently underway. The redevelopment will consist of a new supermarket, 15 retail units, 16 residential units, with car parking, landscaping and servicing, together with new library access and highway works.

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Blists Hill Victorian Town

This flagship visitor attraction within Shropshire's Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, is set to get a major transformation thanks to a £10 million grant package from Advantage West Midlands and the European Regional Development Fund. One of the ten Ironbridge Gorge Museums, it is internationally recognised for its accurate interpretation of the trades of a small manufacturing and mining town at the end of the Victorian era.

The first project will be the construction of a new entrance and visitor centre to the museum which will include a cafe and shop with good disabled access. Plans are also in place for a replica narrow gauge railway, similar to that extensively used in the mineral industries of the gorge a century ago. The track will follow the Blists Hill canal and link up with an incline plane lift to take visitors to and from the village green. Four of five new shops will be added at the top of the town while a cluster of manufacturing workshops will expand still further the number of trades demonstrated to visitors. Additional space for car-parking and park-and-ride services will also be added.