Design, environment and energy consultancy, LDA Design, has just completed a public realm scheme for Gloucester that constitutes new areas of public realm and environmental enhancements.

The scheme enhances the historic city and docks in a sympathetic manner consistent with the area’s conservation status. It also importantly serves as a key link to facilitate pedestrian movement between the historic retail heart of the city and the new retail development at Gloucester Quays, knitting together three of the city’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ redevelopment sites: Gloucester Quays, the Docks and Blackfriars.

The design includes major new public art commissions inspired by local stories, new street furniture, semi mature trees, natural stone steps and feature lighting. Clear pedestrian priority streets and spaces now define the route into the city.