Residents in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, are being asked to help decide how their city centre will look and function in the coming Local Plan period to 2044. Peterborough City Council has launched a public consultation to gather ideas on future shopping, housing and leisure spaces as part of the Local Plan Review.
The council is focusing on several major areas, including the long-delayed North Westgate site and the Station Quarter redevelopment. Officials want to encourage more homes in the city centre and create better spaces for evening entertainment and public gatherings — measures intended to boost the night-time economy and reduce reliance on cars.
People can share their views through the online Alternative Site Option consultation, which runs until 5 March 2026. While the council has limited resources for extra in-person events and is concentrating engagement online, paper response forms are available at the city’s libraries and comments can be returned by email or post. The consultation is a chance for residents to influence where new homes and other development could go ahead of the council’s timetable to submit the Local Plan to government in late 2026.
The council’s project team has described the Station Quarter works as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to link the historic cathedral area with a modern transport gateway. Preliminary site preparation for the Station Quarter has already started, and main construction work on the first phase (the ‘City Link’) is scheduled to begin in early 2026, with partners aiming for work to be underway by the end of the financial year.
Council leader Councillor Dennis Jones and other senior officers have emphasised the importance of public feedback, while project leads and stakeholders — including Network Rail, the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority and private developers — are working on delivery of the wider programme of city-centre regeneration.
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