Plans have been submitted for a £150 million mixed-use development in Bournemouth.

The former Winter Gardens site is to be transformed by Bournemouth Development Company into new residential, restaurant, leisure and retail space with new parking facilities and public realm.

Features include 352 new homes arranged across four multi-storey buildings, a new 369-space below-ground car park, 356 cycle spaces for residents and further spaces for visitors, five restaurant units along Exeter Road, a new food store, dedicated built space for family leisure, a new piazza at the junction of Exeter and Cranborne Road, a linear park alongside Cranborne Road and other publicly accessible open spaces with opportunities for outdoor cafés and children's play areas.

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Additional extensive hard and soft landscaping is also proposed to contribute to setting and place making for the new development and its immediate environment.

Bournemouth Council Leader John Beesley said: "Winter Gardens is a strategically important regeneration site in the town centre and the Bournemouth Development Company is uniquely placed to deliver a scheme that will be hugely beneficial for residents, visitors and the profile of the town.

"This would be the largest project of its kind ever undertaken in Bournemouth. The scheme will be transformational, combining new homes, leisure and social infrastructure in a location where people will want to live, work and socialise."

Duncan Johnston, Development Director of the Bournemouth Development Company, added: "Winter Gardens is a historically important but underutilised site. We're proposing a forward-looking scheme that meets the needs of Bournemouth now and in the future. Health and vitality underpin the design concept which successfully combines safe and secure town centre living in an attractive seaside location with facilities that residents and visitors need."

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