The Rochdale Borough High Street Foundation organised a workshop to look specifically at Heywood Town Centre this Monday 11 February.
The event, at Heywood Sports Village, examined the positives and negatives of how Heywood is currently working and asked for ideas on stimulating more activities around the arts, music, heritage and enterprise of our town.
It featured presentations from various council officers, including Peter Rowlinson, the authority's head of planning.
Guests were then asked for their ideas on moving the town centre forward. Heywood was highlighted as the healthiest town in the Rochdale borough.
Other positives included the fact there are relatively few empty shops in the town, many well-established independent businesses, a strong community market and good leisure facilities.
Areas earmarked for development in the future included the East Lancashire Railway, the old Boots warehouse, Mossfield, the George Street area and Angel Meadow.
There was discussion about reasons for a general downturn in high streets around the country and strategies to reverse the trend.
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