page_title: Mansfield
section_title: Regeneration
hierarchical_section_title: Mansfield / Economy / Regeneration
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Kings Mill hospital, Mansfield.
context_page_description: Mansfield is a market town in Nottinghamshire, England, the main town in the District of Mansfield and Mansfield Urban Area. It lies in the Maun Valley, 12 miles north of Nottingham, and is near Sutton-in-Ashfield. Most of the 106,556 population live within the town proper, with Market Warsop as a secondary centre. It is the only local authority in Nottinghamshire directly to elect its mayor. Coal mining and textiles were the main industries until closures in the 1990s. Despite some industrial diversification, 20.2 per cent of the working-age population today claim out-of-work benefits.
context_section_description: Several urban regeneration projects planned for Mansfield involved large-scale demolition, but the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent central-government funding cuts and escalating austerity measures deferred them. Mansfield District Council promoted two new developments: Arrival Square, opened 2008, an office block occupied by the Probation Service by the rail station; and Queen's Place—completed and opened by the mayor, Tony Egginton, in late 2013—which cost the council £2.4 million. It offered two new ground-floor retail units and six offices in Queen Street between the new transport interchange and the market square.
  In February 2014, the town's MP, Sir Alan Meale criticised the council for failing to find tenants before completion and opening. Although it received a local-government award in July 2014, Queen's Place remained empty.
  In late 2015, Mansfield BID staff and other council staff moved elsewhere while restoration work on the roof, and other externals of the historic Town Hall, was completed at a cost of £550,000. Despite the cost, Mansfield District Council had no plans for future use of the large building.
  Reconstruction of nearby King's Mill Hospital in Sutton in Ashfield was completed in 2009. It is near the Mansfield and Ashfield Regeneration Route, which opened in 2004 as a bypass designed to reduce through traffic and improve access by connecting the A617 at Pleasley to the A617 at Rainworth.
  In 2009 Mansfield made a bid for city status, appending redevelopment plans for retail, residential and leisure facilities with road improvements gradually being made; still pending as of August 2020.
caption: King's Mill Hospital in 2013, showing the main entrance beyond the paving, outpatient clinics to the left, the women and children's centre to the right, and wards in the towers behind
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