Have your say on the Future of Wellingborough Town Centre

Closes 15 Jun 2026

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Vision and Objectives

The Vision for Wellingborough town centre:

“Wellingborough will be a proud, vibrant, and welcoming town with a strong heart - a ‘Growth Town’ where our rich heritage and future ambition come together.

We will stitch our neighbourhoods, green spaces, and historic and modern assets together with safe, walkable streets that lead to a vibrant new Civic Heart.

We will create a town centre patchwork of activity, business, culture, and community where every piece of the town connects.

This is our route map to a 21st-century heart where heritage and future are woven together, restoring a deep, shared pride in Wellingborough.”

4. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the Vision for Wellingborough Town Centre?
5. Below are four objectives for the town centre. Please rank them in order of importance to you (1 = most important, 4 = least important)

Objective 1: Deliver a Civic Heart and Unified Cultural Experience 
Creating attractive streets, public spaces, green areas and cultural places where people want to spend time.

More detail on Objective 1

  • Create a 'Civic Heart' in the town centre to be proud of - a public space for everyone.
  • Integrate existing green spaces and enhanced cultural assets into the daily life of the town centre environment physically and operationally.
  • Provide a high-quality public realm and a pedestrian-priority experience.
  • Encouraging ‘dwell time’ through a programme of community events which support civic and other economy-based objectives, whilst maximising existing cultural events like the Waendel Walk.

Objective 2: Coordinate ‘Big and Small’ Connectivity 
Improving walking and cycling routes, welcoming entrances, access from the station, and connections to green spaces, while reducing traffic impacts where possible.

More detail on Objective 2

  • Capitalise on the regional rail gateway by creating safe, legible active travel routes to and from the town centre.
  • Reduce car dominance on peripheral streets to improve town centre walkability.
  • Upgrade strategic and local gateways defining a welcoming and accessible town centre environment for all users.
  • Deliver a street ‘greening’ strategy to enhance environmental quality and connect existing green/blue corridors providing access to nature and biodiversity.
  • Enhance key streets like Market Street, and Cambridge Street creating safe, inclusive, and lively connections.

Objective 3: Harness Heritage and Repurpose ‘Tradeable’ Assets 
Bringing empty buildings back into use, protecting historic streets and views, adding everyday services and leisure uses, and improving Swanspool Brook as a town feature.

More detail on Objective 3

  • Transition to a mixed-use core by repurposing post-war structures like Swansgate Centre and the library to create a 21st century town centre offer - flexible hubs to work, shop, and live.
  • Focus on consolidation over expansion by filling ‘negative voids’ and gap sites.
  • Encourage ‘anchor’ uses into the town centre, such as healthcare, education, local services and new experience-based leisure.
  • Reintroduce the historic street plan and frame views of landmark heritage assets.
  • Enhance existing blue infrastructure - by ‘Reclaiming the Brook’.
  • Celebrate our historic buildings like All Hallows Church and The Hind Hotel.

Objective 4: Empower an Integrated Mixed-Use Economy
Supporting local businesses, encouraging events and activities, increasing town centre living, and making better use of public and underused spaces.

More detail on Objective 4

  • Support local entrepreneurship and independents, encouraging a diverse mix of businesses by providing flexible workspaces and retail spaces.
  • Support a vibrant daytime and evening economy by utilising public space for activities around the ‘Civic Heart’ space.
  • Reactivate vacant frontages and diversify land uses to serve both established neighbourhoods and new residential growth areas.
  • Encourage a resilient mix of town centre living types to sustain footfall and increase natural surveillance.
6. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the objectives for Wellingborough Town Centre?

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