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We work with local businesses & partners to promote, support & enhance Shrewsbury Town Centre.

24/08/2026

🥘 Shrewsbury Restaurant Week will return this autumn for its third outing!

From the 24th October to the 1st November, we're working with Steve and Saskia Guy again to showcase Shrewsbury's hospitality sector. We'd love to see lots of special events, menus and collaborations across the town centre to celebrate, as well as fixed-price offers, all designed to get new feet through the door (at the same time as rewarding your regulars).

Steve and Saskia will be making contact with businesses in the near future about getting involved - get in touch with them via @ shrewsrestaurant week on Instagram to start talking, or email [email protected].

📷 The Bird's Nest, photographed for us in 2025

23/08/2026

The parklets on Abbey Foregate are in! It's brilliant to see them starting to be used by the local community and visitors this weekend 🌿☕🙌

A big thank you to Shrewsbury Town Council for the wonderful planting, and the Kier team for managing the installation.

Over the next two weeks, we'll be working with Shrewsbury Men's Shed to make some further improvements and make the parklets even more accessible for wheelchair users.

Thank you to everyone who shared their views and helped shape this. More updates to follow!

📸 Painted Life Productions

18/08/2026

⚠️ Window competition entrants - votes close this time next week!

There's still time for your business to win. This week, take a beautiful picture of your window in the sunshine and share the voting link on your channels, and direct as many of your customers as possible to your 'vote for us' poster to vote in person - every vote counts!

The link you'll want to share is here 👉 https://shrewsbury.typeform.com/summerwindow26

🤝 The Shrewsbury Summer Window Competition 2026 is generously sponsored by Shrewsbury Folk Festival

15/08/2026

🌻 Community garden volunteers wanted! 👩‍🌾

A new community garden is coming to Abbey Foregate - designed to give people the chance to grow together.

We're looking for volunteers to get involved - you haven't got to be a knowledgable gardener to put your name down for future volunteering, but we are particularly keen to hear from people with some gardening and/or organisation experience who'd like to take on a garden leader role, and help us to shape and coordinate the space in this key early stage!

Interested? Register via our form (https://shrewsbury.typeform.com/communitygarden) and we'll be in touch in early September.

If you have any issues using our volunteer form or require it in a different format, please let us know by DM or email (info @ shrewsburybid.co.uk)

14/08/2026

Last autumn, nearly 400 residents and visitors to Abbey Foregate told us what you liked, what you didn't like and what you'd like to see change in the area.

Here’s how we’ve responded:

You asked for more seating ➡️ Brand new public seating and planting will be installed on the old taxi rank next week, between the 17th and 19th! More seating is planned for the street outside The Crown next spring

You asked for more greenery ➡️ All parklets will be planted up by Shrewsbury Town Council later next week, and additional new planters are coming to the area

You asked for calmer traffic ➡️ Next week, Shropshire Council is dropping speed limits to 20mph across Abbey Foregate (section behind the Abbey), Horsefair, Railway Lane, Railway Terrace and Portobello

You asked for better access ➡️ At the same time, Shropshire Council is adding an extra blue badge space, and increasing street parking capacity with angled bays replacing some existing parallel spaces

All work is funded by UKSPF and coordinated by the Shrewsbury Big Town Plan Partnership.

All work is funded by UKSPF and coordinated by the Shrewsbury Big Town Plan Partnership.

🖼️ Artist's impression by Cherie Jerrard

Full story 🔗 https://shrewsburybigtownplan.org/abbey-foregate-to-see-new-public-seating-and-planting-installed-next-week/

10/08/2026

As the climate changes and unusual weather events such as flooding and the recent drought become more common, long-term water management for the Severn Valley is vital for the resilience of our town centre.

That's why we're getting behind Severn Together: Communities in Action, a six-day canoe journey from Llanidloes to Bridgnorth, uniting affected communities in a challenge to government to fully fund and deliver the Severn Valley Water Management Scheme.

As they travel along the river, the paddlers will be stopping in towns and villages to hear directly from residents, businesses, schools, community groups and other local organisations about the challenges they face from flooding, drought and changing weather.

🛶 The paddlers will reach Shrewsbury on Friday 4 September (arriving at Welsh Bridge/Quarry ~5pm) and set off again on Saturday 5 September (~10am from the Quarry).

Come down to the Quarry to meet the paddlers and share your own flood story.

Sign up to follow the journey and keep up to date on the campaign for better water management at severntogether.org

04/08/2026

Shropshire's new travel planning app is now live! 🚌

Shropshire Council has partnered with Citymapper to bring live bus and rail times, walking and cycling routes, locally available taxi services and Shrewsbury's Connect on-Demand bus into one extremely user-friendly app.

Rather than just pointing you to one route, Citymapper compares your options side by side - showing live times, journey length, how much walking each route involves, and even mixed routes (such as routes that combine rail and bus) so you can pick what actually works.

Step-by-step directions mean no guessing which stop or platform you need, and you'll also get real-time alerts of delays, departures and cancellations. Live notifications during your journey mean you can also be notified via your phone when your stop is next up - so you don't have to worry about missing it.

Whether planning the commute, an appointment, the school run, or a day out and back, every trip planned through the app also helps shape future transport improvements across the county by enabling the partners to identify route demand, trends and public transport gaps.

Free to download on iOS and Android, or use the online planner if you're not on mobile.

🔗 https://citymapper.com/

31/07/2026

❗ Shop Shrewsbury reminder for businesses (in case you missed it in your inbox!)

Based on business requests, we've EXTENDED the campaign to run through to the end of August, giving your customers a full extra month to collect stickers and shop with you.

Please hold onto your stickers, posters and sticker-books, and let us know or pop in to our office to collect some if you need more!

IMPORTANT: If you had an offer running for Shop Shrewsbury that you DON'T want extended through August, please let us know ASAP so we can take it off the list

29/07/2026

Town centre parking update 🅿️

We've been made aware that as of this Saturday (1st Aug), the NCP car park on Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, will be operated by Q Park.

This is due to the NCP going into administration. As soon as we have information on Q Park's hourly and daily charges at the site, we will share them here and update our Original Shrewsbury parking page.

Q Park is a national parking operator with more than 70 car parks around the UK and typically offers pay machines and app-based payment, similar to NCP, as well as pre-booking for those who wish to secure a space in advance.

UPDATE: We have now confirmed with NCP agents that the car park has not finished transition yet and NCP will still be taking payments for the time being - please pay as usual in the NCP app to avoid a ticket!

28/07/2026

🌳 We've got exciting plans to bring more public space to Abbey Foregate.

The vacant, fenced-off plot between Hair 21 and the railway bridge is being transformed into a new 'pocket park,' featuring seating, planting, free high-speed WiFi, cycle storage and a Brompton bike hire station in the front, and a community garden to the rear to give local residents without their own outdoor patch the chance to get their hands in the soil!

The project is a partnership with Martin Monahan, who is making the land available free of charge to Shrewsbury BID, and working alongside Shrewsbury Men's Shed to transform the site. It's funded through the Shrewsbury Big Town Plan Partnership, with capital funding from UK Government via the UKSPF Supporting Local Community & Place Fund.

Site clearance begins TODAY, and the space is expected to open to the public by the end of September.

Thank you to Cherie Jerrard for this illustration of our plans for the site!

More info on this project - https://shrewsburybid.co.uk/neglected-abbey-foregate-land-set-to-bloom-into-new-public-park/

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11a Fish Street
Shrewsbury
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https://shrewsburybid.co.uk/

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