Five Valleys Shopping Centre, Stroud

Dransfield Properties is working on major improvements to the Five Valleys Centre (formerly Merrywalks) in Stroud.

The first phases of works focused on much needed improvements to the centre’s multi story car park and the King Street elevation as well as the mall area.

An indoor Borough Market style indoor market with a range of local food producers and artisans has been created and new retailers to the centre include JoJo Maman Bebe and Sandersons Boutique Department Store, which opened in April 2021.

Central to the work is the brand new £6.5m medical centre. The home of two of the town’s established GP practices, Locking Hill Surgery and Stroud Valleys Family Practice, which have now merged to become Five Valleys Medical Practice.

The fully refurbished building now houses the medical practice, a new first floor physiotherapy and podiatry suite operated by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust as well as a Starbucks coffee shop and office facilities. The towns library services are also relocating here and Gloucestershire County Council have now started their fit out to the lower floor.

Thirteen luxury residential properties, including a number of stylish apartments and a townhouse have also been created in the under-used space above retail and office units. An attractive new stairway and access courtyard area has been created to the side of Curio Lounge providing access to two of the spacious new apartments.

Current development works are now taking place to build an attractive building housing new office space increasing employment further in the town and footfall to our retail and leisure businesses.

Dransfield Properties is working in partnership with GFirst LEP and Stroud District Council to deliver this sensitively designed scheme and ensure it fits into the town’s historic fabric.