This week’s East Midlands news: Highs and lows for Leicester
It’s maybe the natural order of things; when one long-established business announce it’s about to shut its doors, along comes news of an exciting newcomer. That’s certainly what happened in Leicester this week.
Our most-read story this week was the news that a Leicestershire pub company is set to transform a run-down city centre pub into a boutique hotel, bar and restaurant.
Everards Brewery has been granted planning permission to transform the former Molly O’Grady’s pub on Hotel Street, Leicester, into a 13-bedroom boutique hotel called The Knight & Garter in a move that will create 40 jobs. The news came just 48 hours before long-established department store Fenwick announced it was closings its Leicester branch after over 5o years of trading.
Our second most popular tale this week showed plans that could transform a gateway entrance to the Nottinghamshire town of Beeston have been submitted to Broxtowe Borough Council.
Initial plans for the Barton Quarter, to be built on the site of the former Barton bus depot on the High Road, Chilwell, include 29 houses – with a further outline application for 221 further homes and a mixed-use scheme to sit alongside them.
In third place was the news that the East Midlands is set to play host to three new garden villages as part of government plans to build more than 48,000 homes.
Deenethorpe in Northamptonshire, Spitalgate Heath in Lincolnshire and Infinity Garden Village will see between 1,500 and 10,000 homes being built and will have access to a £6m fund over the next two financial years to ” unlock the full capacity of sites, providing funding for additional resources and expertise to accelerate development and avoid delays,” according to the Department of Communities and Local Government.
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