Builders are in the process of erecting an extension area to the hoardings surrounding the former Bill Salmon Centre; where part of the long awaited 'Phase One' of the town centre redevelopment is to start. In late November, groundworkers dug trenches to allow BT to re-route a cable. Then, a month later, a new trench was dug to allow a mains electrical cable to be diverted. And now, another trench is to be excavated - within the new fenced off area - as a gas pipe is moved. It is not yet known if a mains water diversion is to be diverted too. 

Meanwhile, the Borough Council have not released a schedule to inform when the actual construction works will commence on the five shops and fifteen flats destined to be built on the former Bill Salmon Centre plot which has remained enclosed by hoardings since March 2011.