Sutton Harbour to refine Boardwalk plans

Sutton Harbour Holdings Plc is looking at how it can refine a £4 million plan to create a new boardwalk with family restaurants and shops following discussions with the city council and English Heritage, and said it would submit details soon.

The Boardwalk project will create a direct waterside pedestrian route between Guys Quay and Vauxhall Quay for the first time, and help revitalise and continue the regeneration of the north and eastern areas of Sutton Harbour.

Jason Schofield, chief executive of Sutton Harbour Holdings Plc, said: “We are committed to delivering the Boardwalk project which will bring a wide range of social and economic benefits to the Harbour and we will be bringing forward a revised scheme shortly.

“We want to ensure that we strike the right balance between increasing the vitality of Sutton Harbour and respecting the harbour’s historic setting, and with that in mind we are working very closely with English Heritage on refining our proposals.”

The Boardwalk project is part of Sutton Harbour Holdings’ £75 million masterplan to promote Sutton Harbour as a national destination which was first revealed in November.

The masterplan outlines new restaurants, cafés, shops, offices and apartments on underused sites around the Harbour, creating a waterside destination to rival the likes of Albert Dock in Liverpool and St Katharine Docks in the City of London.

The first project from the masterplan, a new environmentally friendly café called ‘the real food kitchen’, to be built on Quay Point, was approved by Plymouth City Council last week and will create five jobs when it opens later this year.