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Background
Vision Objective
Proposals
Rationale
Activity

Background:

‘Fisherton Square’ does not currently exist as a defined area. This project covers the existing public space in front of the Salisbury Playhouse, and the City Hall entertainment venue at the end of Malthouse Lane. These venues currently open onto a small roundabout and the rear of various buildings, including restaurants and takeaway shops that front onto Fisherton Street.

Vision Objective:

Create a new lively urban space adjacent to the Playhouse, City Hall and relocated library.

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Proposals:

  • This space is intended as a lively and active urban space for people to interact in and ‘people watch’. It should include a high quality, coordinated set of elements (street furniture, planting, lighting, signage, public art) which complement the city’s historic character.
  • Make the space more pedestrian orientated through changes in surface treatment and highway design
  • Maintain active frontages and spill out from land uses around the periphery of the space including the Playhouse and Library
  • Maintain simple, direct and obvious pedestrian links to Market Place and the Maltings area
  • No parking other than for essential users such as disabled people. Servicing should be done to the rear or side of buildings to minimise visual intrusion of the environmental quality of the space
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Rationale:

  • To improve the setting of the City Hall, Salisbury Playhouse and a relocated library
  • To provide a significant public space which complements and is connected to the Market Place

Activity:

This project is an integral part of the Maltings and central car park redevelopment.

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