• Reinforces the remaining historic street pattern to generate a sense of place about the town centre.

• Provides a public event square and/or market venue, the heart of the town, a consistently detailed landscape surface extendable beyond the site confines.

• Builds on the tradition of a local authority presence on site at the former Town Hall, retaining and extending this building with civic offices fronting this new square.

• Provides flexible spaces for live/work in addition to conventional single use buildings.

• Reaches out to embrace the stores Tesco and Asda, by creating initially visual links which could over time be reinforced by physical provision.

• Foresees a future transport interchange with a Manchester LRT extension as a practical proposition on the existing bus station site.

• Builds on the local tradition of solid buildings which respond to their topography.

Design 2013.