New design reveals proposed layout for Peterborough's £65 million Station Quarter transformation

The first outline design for Peterborough’s £65 million Station Quarter development has been revealed by officials as the project reaches its first milestone.

The sketch for the transformation of Peterborough’s train station and surrounding area highlight the creation of a new road access to the western side of the station and the creation of a western station entrance plus the proposed construction of a multi-storey car park and surface level car park nearby.

The eastern entrance to the station would be refurbished, with more space and a relocated entrance to provide a better customer experience and to reduce passenger congestion, and sweep out into a new Station Square area that would abut a taxi and drop off/pick up point.

The existing surface car park would be retained and there would be plenty of accessible parking and two areas for bicycles.

There is also a large area of land labelled ‘meanwhile use’ that is currently used mostly as car park and appears that it will be surrounded by new access leading to the new taxi drop off and pick up point.

From here the design outlines a route, called City Link, to the Queensgate roundabout.

The Great Northern Hotel site sits in front of the refurbished eastern station entrance.

The design has been put together by Ove Arup, which is the company selected by the project partners – Peterborough City Council, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, train operator LNER, and Network Rail - to draw up a masterplan and outline business case for the Station Quarter, which has been given £47 million in Government Levelling Up funding and is expected to attract private funding of about £18 million.

The project is to be discussed by members of the Combined Authority’s business board on Monday.

Members will be told that the design forms part of the Outline Business Case for the Station Quarter development and which has just been submitted to the Department for Transport for approval.

Once that approval has been secured the city council will begin work on a Full Business Case for the project.