The Elder Place Corridor Project

What the Elder Place Corridor is

The Elder Place Corridor is the name that we’ve given to three streets in the north-east of the city centre.  These streets are Elder Place, Providence Place, and St Peter’s Street. They run along the back of London Road, from Cheapside all the way up to New England Road.

Our plan to improve the area

Currently, the area can feel unsafe as it suffers from graffiti tagging and other antisocial behaviour. It also has narrow or missing pavements and limited accessibility, poor streetlighting, through-traffic, a lack of trees and green spaces, and things to see and do. It is run down, has a poor image, and feels unloved. 

We want to inject some new life into the Corridor, to make it welcoming and vibrant.

We want to help create a place that's:

• safe and accessible
• enables more walking, wheeling, and cycling, giving people cleaner, healthier and more sustainable options to travel
• greener and more climate resilient
• more sociable and safe, by creating spaces for people to rest, enjoy, and engage in community life, providing well-lit streets and commissioning public art
• more complementary to the surrounding area, a place with a strong sense of community

How we'll acheive our plan

We have a small amount of funding from local developers to spend on the Corridor. We want to spend this money on improving the area's look and feel. This would involve things like roads, pavements, streetlighting and public spaces.

Have your say

We’ve come up with some early ideas and preliminary designs called our 'concept plan’ and we’d like your views and feedback on them.

We’d also like to know:

• how you want to use the area
• your ideas for how you think it could be improved
• how you could get involved

The consultation on our concept plan runs from Tuesday 24 June 2025 to Tuesday 5 August 2025.

Using your feedback, we’ll develop the designs and begin making the improvements we can with the money we have in 2026.