Regeneration in Weymouth

Regenerating Weymouth’s Waterside Economy 

In January 2023 Dorset Council was awarded £19.5m by Government to help regenerate Weymouth’s Waterside Economy. A key element of the council’s bid included ambitious regeneration plans for land at North Quay and the Peninsula.  

Since the original bid, we have included Weymouth Bowl and land at West Marina, adding a fourth prime development site to the portfolio of development sites on offer.

Together, these four prime sites will help unlock Weymouth’s Waterfront economy and will further strengthen the future of this popular and historic seaside town.   

Our ambition is to achieve a diverse, thriving town with high quality destination streets and varied, attractive, accessible places for all making the most of Weymouth’s stunning waterfront locations. 

Unfortunately, we did not appoint a development partner for North Quay and Weymouth Bowl as the applications received did not meet our high expectations.

We hope to be able to offer North Quay and Weymouth Bowl together, with other high-quality waterside development sites in Weymouth, to a development partner in the future as part of a substantial redevelopment package. 

Any plans brought forward as part of this process will be subject to the usual planning consultations and consents. 
 

North Quay 

A prime development site sitting to the south side of Weymouth’s harbour, North Quay is the first of the four key sites listed in our original bid to government, to have benefitted from government funding.  

Demolition of the former borough council offices, which previously occupied this site, completed in April 2024 and it is currently a temporary car park until a development partner is found and appointed. 

Brand new services and utilities now form part of this prestigious development site, along with the repair and strengthening of the harbour walls on which it borders.   

Weymouth Bowl 

Planning permission to demolish the former bowling alley building on this site was achieved in April 2024. Contractors are being procured and demolition is due to start in Spring 2025.  

Once the building has been demolished, the site will be returned to a temporary car park, until a development partner is appointed to bring forward plans for redevelopment of this site. 

The Peninsula 

The Peninsula is the site of the disused ferry terminal at the mouth of the historic working harbour, located to the southeast of the town. Currently, much of the site is currently used for car parking.  

This site presents an exciting and unique opportunity for an incredible waterside development potentially including residential properties, a hotel, destination restaurant as well as retail and commercial units. 

The working fishing harbour will remain on the southern edge of the Peninsula and presents opportunities for maritime retail and storage, together with potential improvements to the overall harbour experience.  

An extensive programme of work to replace the walls which support the Peninsula is due to start in Spring 2025 and is likely to take 10 months to complete. 

Due to a complex Harbour Revision Order legal process which will free up large parts of the site for development, procurement of appointing a development partner for this site is not expected to begin until after the walls have been replaced. 

West Marina 

Enabled by government funding, we have purchased two additional sites to the west of the marina. We are currently working through legal paperwork which will allow us to proceed with redevelopment of this site.