Place

A place for everyone

• You visit your town and local centres mostly for restaurants, pubs and shopping in the evenings (6pm – midnight)
• Pubs are the main reason for visiting town and local centres in the late night (midnight - 6am)
• You asked for more culture, especially music venues and outdoor performances
• Businesses at night mostly cater to the younger, more affluent section of the community
• Need to celebrate the magic of community and cultural spaces across the borough with more activities and events
• Need more youth clubs, sports facilities and safe places where young people can spend time during the evening
• Need a wider range of later opening businesses, not just surrounding alcohol, to activate streets for safety and help local economy prosper

Design our centres for the night

• A lot of shop windows are dark or have shutters down at night and create dark patches
• Disused spaces, empty units and railway arches should be used where possible
• More creative and warm street lights wanted, with better colours

Parks and open spaces

• Many people are scared of using parks at night  
• More outdoor spaces wanted for the community to use in the evenings
• Businesses, residents and visitors have welcomed the pedestrianisation of streets in the borough
• Businesses outside of pedestrianised zones felt left out and would like to be included in creative solutions for attracting footfall too 
• The river is underused and could connect better to the night time econom