Steeped in riverside heritage, Gravesend boasts a vibrant, multi-cultural town centre which will be further improved over coming years through a number of exciting new projects.
Significant new residential schemes, providing 152 new homes, are largely complete at Parrock Street/Eden Place. New health care services have also recently been added to the town centre with the opening of the £25mn Gravesham Community Hospital health and social care facility.
Further plans to improve the town centre include:
- A development agreement with Edinburgh House, which will see substantial redevelopment and enhancement of the Heritage Quarter. This will provide significant new retail floorspace, 500 new homes, restaurants, offices, and a hotel as well as new community facilities and public realm enhancements.
- The Transport Quarter, which covers the area around Gravesend railway station. Proposals to improve facilities at the station and provide a new town centre interchange with Fastrack services are being developed. This will aim to maximise the investment opportunities for commercial and residential developments when High Speed 1 domestic services to London St. Pancras are introduced to Gravesend Station in 2009.
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Gravesham Borough Council
Princess Pocahontas Gravesend
Tide Tables"Towncentric in Gravesend is the 2007 joint winner of the Tourist Information Centre of the year award in the Enjoy England for Excellence awards, recognised for providing a central facility to co-ordinate town centre management and regeneration in Gravesend."
Visit Britain, the national tourism agency for Great Britain
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