PLY18 Plymouth History Centre / The Box

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Development Stage 5 – Under construction

Land at North Hill and Tavistock Place is allocated for The Box, together with a higher education and/or business-led mixed use development on Tavistock Place / Chapel Street with enabling student housing development in cluster flat format. The Box will be a major new visitor attraction and unique historic archive and learning space for the city which will support the regeneration of the North Hill / Tavistock Plan cultural quarter. It will bring together the existing City Museum collections with new exhibition space, including the conversion of the former St Luke’s Church, together with a landmark modern archive space for the City’s historic archives. Tavistock Place will be closed to through traffic to form a public piazza, with new pedestrian and cycling links through to North Hill and Chapel Street.

This site forms part of the wider site PLY18 which includes:

• PLY18 Land at Tavistock Place / Chapel Street – Feasibility 

 

SITE INFORMATION

SITE AREA: 0.64 ha

OWNERSHIP:  Principally PCC with other sections in different ownership

EXISTING USE: Museum and library currently under redevelopment as the box. Tavistock Place/ Chapel Street HMO and social club.

JOINT LOCAL PLAN ALLOCATION PLY18

USE: History Centre is proposed to be a major new visitor attraction.  

DELIVERY TRAJECTORY: The Box project due completion 2020 . 

DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS THE BOX (PLYMOUTH HISTORY CENTRE)

1. Planning and Listed Building Consent granted for museum, archive and exhibition space.  Majority of Conditions discharged.

2. Site nearing completion.

PLYMOUTH CITY COUNCIL NEXT STEPS

1.  Continue process of supporting applicant with Condition discharges during construction. 

2.  Support applicant regarding on-site issues which are emerging through construction and the processing of necessary applications as a result. 

 

CONTACTS

Katherine Graham, +441752 307342

E Katherine.graham@plymouth.gov.uk