Listen as council outlines deal to transform car parks site in Peterborough

A supermarket, care home, restaurant and homes could be built on two Peterborough city centre car parks.

​This is the vision outlined by regeneration chiefs at Peterborough City Council as they seek to breathe new life into a neglected area of the city.

A new video released by the council, reveals details of a joint venture between supermarket operator Lidl and a developer to transform the Dickens Street and Wellington Street car parks.

In it the council’s growth and regeneration director Nick Carter highlights the fact that a boarded off area in the middle of the Dickens Street car park is owned by Lidl and which had been disposed of by the council 36 years ago.

Mr Carter states: “So we encouraged Lidl to get into a joint venture with a developer and they subsequently have done and they have come forward with a mixed use regeneration development proposal for the whole of the area including the Wellington Street car park that sits just across the road.

"The development will consist of a new Lidl store, a care home, a family restaurant, some affordable housing and some privately sector housing.

"It will regenerate this whole area which is very incoherent and is desperately in need of an uplift to raise aspirations and to make this environmentally much more improved for the local community.”

A survey carried out by the council between April 2022 and February 2023 revealed that the Dickens Street car park generates the least income per day of all of its car parks and that Wellington Street was also not well used.