Gloucester Docks is one of the seven major investment projects identified by the Gloucester Heritage Urban Regeneration Company.

Planners employed by the South West Regional Development Agency prepared a masterplan for the main docks area in 2003. This established a framework within which developers of individual sites could work out their detailed proposals. The plan indicated that many of the refurbished and new buildings should have shops, cafes or business units on the ground floor and residential accommodation above. Car parks should be sited around the periphery, leaving the central area traffic-free except for service vehicles. Public areas should have high quality surfacing, street furniture and visual arts features. For further information, see the following

Work is well under way on a £300 million redevelopment of the Bakers Quay, Llanthony and Monk Meadow areas to the south of the main docks. The plans, promoted by a partnership between Peel Developments and British Waterways, include a new bridge to carry St Ann Way over the canal, a designer outlet shopping centre, a new campus for the Gloucestershire College, a food superstore, a 90-bed hotel, offices, business units, shops, car parking and 1000 homes.