Major mixed-use scheme planned for Leicester city centre

Plans for a 94-bed student apartment scheme near the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester have been submitted to the City Council.

According to reports in the Leicester Mercury, the site is currently home to an industrial and storage building owned by clothing firm City Styles.

It is reported that City Styles has bought a larger unit in Parker Drive, off Blackbird Road and the St Nicholas Circle factory will be demolished.

Adam Burdett, of investment agent Intali, said: “The site is located directly opposite Holiday Inn and adjacent to the Jewry Wall Museum, having frontages to both St Nicholas Circle and Leicester Waterside on Bath Lane, to the rear.

“This is a complex site, being single-storey to the St Nicholas Circle frontage, but three-storey to the rear Bath Lane elevation.

“However, it offers a fantastic opportunity to improve the street scene in an area that has not seen any real improvement since the Holiday Inn was first built in the early 1970s.”

The new building would also include a shop on the ground floor.

Staniforth are the architects on the scheme.