Surrey Heath Borough Council has approved Crest Nicholson’s £100m mixed-use redevelopment of Camberley town centre.

Designed by DLG Architects, the development will be situated on and around Park Street and include a nine-screen cinema, a 30-lane bowling alley, restaurants, cafés, 22,000sq ft (2,000sq m) of health and fitness provisions, 120,000sq ft (11,000sq m) of new retail accommodation and 218 apartments.

Park Street will be pedestrianised and the development’s centrepiece will be a three-storey glazed atrium.

Work is scheduled to begin in summer 2005 with the first phase of the development due to open in time for Christmas 2006.

DLG’s Professor Anthony Walker said: “The scheme is designed to create a seamless transition between the predominantly residential neighbourhoods on the fringes of the site and the new town centre environment.

“It will transform this part of Camberley into a sustainable and thriving new quarter for shopping, entertaining and living.”