Early 21st century housing association led residential and retail development. This area was the site of a ?1960s social housing estate demolished in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A programme of archaeological works revealed a stratigraphic sequence of deposits showing evidence of activity from the Roman period onwards. The earliest evidence comprised an assemblage of Roman pottery sherds which by association of their forms with those found at analogous sites "may reflect some sort of specialist activity relating to water in this area and . . . is likely to belong to the mid-second to early third century AD." (R. Leary in O'Neill 2004, 34). The next datable deposits were timbers inserted in a substantial cut feature dated through dendrochronology and C14 measures to a felling date between AD425 and 573. The excavations demonstrated a hiatus of activity until the 11th 12th and early 13th centuries, during which time property boundaries were established probably defining plots of land from Wellgate, Castle Street and Elm Green Lane. This period would correspond to the date of a possible rebuilding of St Peter's Church (ibid). Fragmentary legibility of historic spring site in the scheduled medieval well cover within this area. Otherwise all traces of earlier urban form have been removed.