Stoke-on-Trent City Council included an allocation of £1.886m in its capital programme to refurbish the ground floor of Longton Town Hall. The aim was to increase footfall to the building by relocating the Local Centre into the ground floor and making a new entrance feature where the market hall attaches to the town hall. Another objective of the project was to make Times Square and The Strand visually more appealing by finding a new use for a previously underutilised public building, thereby boosting the number of visitors to the town centre and market to help make the town centre more viable.
