Broad Marsh is one of the most significant city centre development sites in the UK.

It has been described as “a once in many generations opportunity” for Nottingham to lead the way in city centre regeneration following the impacts of Covid-19 and online retailing.

Heatherwick Studios – led by the world renowned and highly acclaimed British designer Thomas Heatherwick – and Stories, a leading socially responsible development company, were commissioned by Nottingham City Council and the Greater Broad Marsh Advisory Group to create a new vision for the 20-acre site.

The new vision offers social and economic opportunity to Nottingham on an unprecedented and historic scale, generating 3,000 jobs in the build and 3,000 new jobs once development is complete, creating more than 750 new homes and over 400,000 sq ft of high-end business and office space.

Watch the Vision for the Broad Marsh here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POObBnwGzv0

Key elements of the new vision

  • Reinstating Nottingham’s lost street connections and rebuilding them for the future of the city, reconnecting the whole of the centre, both physically and with its history.
  • A New Green Heart for the city centre, a wildlife-rich green space, which will permeate the whole site and weave in and out of the Frame, aiming to create a beautiful, tranquil core to the city. It will be set within 3.5 hectares of common ground – high quality public realm that permeates the zones across the 20-acre site.
  • Over 750 new homes in the heart of the city looking up at Nottingham Castle.
  • Over 3,000 jobs from new commercial and mixed use buildings, creating high-end business and office space, including conference space, and high quality ground floor retail.
  • The retention of the ‘structural frame’ of the Broadmarsh shopping centre and give it new life and meaning. Inside the Frame, the Vision creates a space like no other, totally unique to the city. Under the key themes of play, performance and food, it could provide a place with a diverse range of uses that brings people together.
  • The rejuvenation of Nottingham’s unique cave network creating a new entrance and transforming the existing Severns House into a hotel, providing the opportunity for tourists to sleep right above the caves and forming part of a new heritage and culture trail through the city centre.

The background

  • The lease for the shopping centre was handed over to the council in July 2020 after intu went into administration.
  • The council launched the Big Conversation on Broad Marsh in Autumn 2020 which attracted over 3,000 individual responses and 11,000 comments from local residents, businesses and business groups, charities, campaign groups, schools, colleges and national architects.
  • One of the key themes that emerged from the Big Conversation was a call for green, natural and open spaces. There was also a large swell of support for a reflection of Nottingham’s history and heritage, including the city’s caves, and mixed developments, including retail, hospitality, leisure and offices.

Please contact Invest in Nottingham for further information about the Broad Marsh site. [email protected]