City Gateway

Enhancing the railway station as a key gateway to the city and sites in the vicinity, plus connectivity into Hoole, Newton, Boughton and beyond. One of the key projects is the new Chester Archive Centre.

The service’s current base, the Record Office in Chester, will soon be replaced with a new dedicated Chester Archive Centre with work now underway on the site of the former Enterprise Centre, in Lightfoot Street, Chester and is included in the wider Chester City Gateway Masterplan.

The new Archive Centre is a priority project within the OCP City Gateway Development Framework and a welcomed first step in the regeneration of this area. The project, called ‘Cheshire’s archives: a story shared’, will transform the way the archives service works and open up the collections to a whole new audience. The centre will feature new exhibition and event spaces, new research rooms, workspace for staff and volunteers, as well as environmentally stable storage for the archives. A sister centre in Crewe will also be built as part of the project.

More information: Cheshire’s archives: a story shared | Cheshire West and Chester Council