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The Foundation has agreed terms with Packington Estate Enterprises Ltd on a 150 year long leasehold letting of the former Opalion Plastics site in Works Road.  Comprising approximately one acre, planning permission has been granted for the construction of five new business units totalling 18,760 sq ft.  These will be available on long leases, bringing new industry and new jobs to the Garden City

The second phase in the world’s first Garden City’s regeneration of its town centre has taken a major step forward.

Against the backcloth of the national economic downturn, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation commissioned Skanska for an £8m contract to construct vital Street Scene Improvement works in the town centre as a pre-curser to the next phase and as part of its commitment to regenerate major parts of the town centre.

Work is underway on vital ‘Street Scene’ improvements for Letchworth Garden City’s two main shopping streets.

Major changes on Eastcheap and Leys Avenue will transform their ‘look and feel’.

Leys Square is being extended with new landscaped seating areas, attractive water features and sculptures between the ‘square’ and The Colonnade, opposite Letchworth Garden City railway station.