First project fully complete in Tamworth town centre regeneration programme

Tamworth Borough Council and Nationwide Building Society are celebrating the opening of the new building society premises on Market Street.

The council formally handed over the renovated building on Market Street, which replicates the original Georgian style of the building, to Nationwide Building Society in July 2024, so they could complete the shop front and interior fit.

This work, which is part of the council’s ambitious £21million regeneration programme to transform the town centre, is the first to be fully complete.

Leader of the council, Carol Dean, said: “It’s so good to see this wonderful property completed in its original Georgian style in active use as Nationwide Building Society.

“While other parts of our town centre transformation are also nearly complete, the opening of the building society today a significant milestone, as the first of our regeneration projects to be fully complete.

“With Nationwide Building Society in their new home, we’ll demolish their former building which was built in the 1960s to create a more open and wider footbridge connecting the town and castle grounds.”

Emma Cotterill, senior branch manager at Nationwide in Tamworth, said: “The Nationwide team and I are so happy to reopen in a fresh space in town with a new improved branch, just over the street from our old location.

“There’s been a Nationwide branch in Tamworth for over 50 years – since 1973 – and with this new investment, branch service is here to stay on the high street in Tamworth.”

Other sites of the council’s transformation plans are progressing – including the new enterprise centre for small businesses in the original 19th century former Co-operative building on Colehill.

Anyone interested in locating to this building can enquire at Tamworth-EnterpriseCentre@tamworth.gov.uk.