What's happening on Maldon High Street

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The Society regularly monitors changes in the High Street and beyond

- new businesses, changes of occupants or businesses that have closed.

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The latest changes reflect the position in September 2025​​​

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• There’s a new gift shop: SuziM at 16a High St

• The Waffle Bar is for sale by the landlord, but there is also planning application for alterations.

• Craft Beer Maldon Ltd is applying for a license in the former Subway in the High Street.

• The Emporium continues with its closing down sale.

• The Market has dwindled to just two or three stalls each Thursday; sometimes just Lauriston Farm.

• The empty Paparazzi restaurant has a “To Let” sign, finally, having been empty for over a year. Rent £50,000 per annum

• Halifax continues on a Tuesday in Town Hall; although Barclays in the library will finish in November.

• The St Giles info board opposite the Maldon Book Shop is being moved next to the Society’s Map nearer the Oakhouse. Hopefully it will not then be covered in birds’ mess.

• The Sweet Shop in Kings Head Centre has moved to 9 High Street.

• Ansells was closed for a week and has had a refit.

• New Tattoo parlour “The Good Life” next to Ansells

• New Age Florist 1a High St, including Tarot Readings

• New bus route to Chelmsford: 333 starts in Heybridge, then up Market Hill, down High St, Limebrook Way to Chelmsford.

• Moonlight Balti has planning application to demolish and rebuild with 5 studio flats above.

• Curtain makers in Quest Place has closed down.

• Annie’s Cake Shop opposite Wantz Road has closed and replaced by Wally’s Pie & Mash Shop. So we now have two cafes doing Pie & Mash.

• The Children’s hairdressers opposite Ansell’s, has closed and is now a new cleaning company.

• The former Bairstow Eves estate agent is undergoing major renovation.

• In Edwards Walk, Profound Barbers has moved across the walkway.

• The former Templeman Optician’s was preparing to be a vape shop, with vary garish signage, but appears to have come to a halt.

• Greggs has had a refit with rear seating area removed.

• Mitchells Jewellers near Wetherspoons is moving to old NatWest Bank.

• Laker Mortgages has opened in Kings Head Centre.

• Another tattoo parlour is also in the Kings Head Centre.

• Work continues inside the former Barclays converting it into a gym; “opening early September”

• WHSmith planning application for sign change to TG Jones.

• Clive Beardall is applying for permission to convert his workshop into 4 residential units

• Benaz Café opposite the Crusty Loaf has closed and is being replaced by the Lego Brick Club.

• A new Pie Shop: “Youngs” has opened in the former pie shop at no 136.

• The beauticians at no 138 has closed after just a few months