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Canterbury is renowned worldwide for its
delightful mixture of architecture, history, arts and culture, museums,
shops, visitor attractions and good restaurants and pubs. England's most
famous cathedral city sits in one of the most attractive corners of rural
Kent and has been welcoming visitors for over 2000 years.
Over recent years, visitors to Canterbury will have noticed the city centre
going through a remarkable period of change. The city has received
significant investment from international retailers and developers and is in
the process of a redevelopment scheme known as the Whitefriars Project.
The project represents the largest single investment ever made in the
District at over £100 million and also the largest area of the City centre
ever to be developed in one phase. The scheme comprises the creation of two
new streets, an informal public square, twenty-three houses, three new large
stores, thirty-six new shops and a car park with over five hundred spaces. A
new library will feature in a building facing onto the public square, as
well as a new arts complex.
The architectural design of the scheme encompasses a series of individually
designed buildings which both honour Canterbury's architectural past and
celebrate contemporary attention to detail. In this way, the scheme will be
perceived as a 21st Century development. The six year project is due to be
completed in April 2005. |
