Objective 6: Townscape - projects

This page details individual project ideas for this Objective, resulting from the Leatherhead Tomorrow activity, summarises the status, and links to fuller project descriptions where available. Click on the links in the right hand column for fuller project descriptions and progress reports.

Key: Planning: work is in hand on detailed project planning in order to submit bids for funding; Funding: project funding is being sought; In Work: funding has been obtained, and work is in progress; Complete: project is complete; Revisit: this project may be amended or incorporated into another heading; NLA: no longer applicable or not now being addressed.

OBJECTIVE 6: To enhance the visual attractiveness of the townscape and the routes into the town.

EN4TO IMPROVE ELEMENTS OF THE TOWNSCAPE IN THE TOWN CENTRE 
EN4.1Review the local design statement to cover the main town centre shopping streets, in such a way as to celebrate the centre of the town and enhance the setting of the most attractive buildings. 
EN4.2Consider enhancements to the visual quality of the whole of Church Street. 
EN4.3Devise a scheme for further encouraging less garish and more attractive shop fronts, and where possible making town centre shops accessible to all. 
EN4.4Encourage the enhancement of specific buildings such as the Theatre fly tower and the Bookworm parade of shops, and the screening of the new waterworks building. 
EN4.5Monitor new building projects such as those on the Bull Hotel site, the Depot site and the Seeboard site, to ensure that the environment is improved at these locations and that the buildings are worthy of inclusion in an historic town. 
EN4.6Explain the hazards of A boards on pavements and then work with shop keepers, Town Centre Manager and SCC Highways to solve the problem. 
EN5TO IMPROVE ATTRACTIVENESS OF ROUTES INTO TOWN AND MAKE THEM WELCOMING 
EN5.1Find ways to improve the appearance of the main routes and gateways into the town, including Leret Way, the downside of the Railway Station, Kingston Road, the entrance to the town from Fetcham and Church Street junction with the Crescent, to welcome visitors and shoppers. 
EN5.2Improve the appearance and feeling of pedestrian alleyways and routes into the town and between the town and the riverside including Elm Road, by improving lighting, removing obstacles and eyesores, improving maintenance of fences, surfaces and signage. 
EN5.3Update signage and fingerposts as part of a coordinated scheme of signage both within the town and to the main destinations around it, such as the river and the Leisure Centre.In Work
EN5.4Continue the enhancement of the Red House Grounds and plan enhancements to Park Gardens and King George V Field in consultation with the public; enhance the Mansion Gardens and improve the wildlife quality of the pond.In Work
EN5.5Consider a programme of planting additional trees within or alongside housing estates, to replace the gradual loss of forest trees, for example behind Clare Crescent and along the stretch of farmland up to Barnett Wood Farm, or as part of new planning permissions, for example near Windfield or in the Kingston Road. 
EN5.6Make road signs simpler and clearer.In Work
EN5.7Find ways to support Heritage Week.