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Winvic scoops top place in contract league WINVIC have scooped eight projects worth over £250m in November sending it to the top of information specialist Glenigan rankings – arguably the industry’s foremost contract league. Amongst the projects won by Winvic are a £40m contract to build Cording Real Estate Group’s first build to rent scheme in the UK in Nottingham, a £44m warehouse in Derby for Roxhill and a £56m industrial scheme in Hemel Hempstead for Prologis. Winvic is also behind the steelwork at the Vaughan Way PRS scheme in Leicester, next to the Highcross shopping centre. This mixeduse residential and commercial development is an 11-storey block with steps down to seven and five storeys on the rear elevations. It comprises 298 apartments and car parking, and is scheduled for completion in Spring 2019 The firm have also commenced groundworks on student accommodation comprising 1,192 self-contained bedrooms, over four interlocking blocks ranging from 14 to 23 storeys include landscaping to the upper floor podium, offices, common rooms and retail spaces on the ground and first floor levels. Works at Fairfax St in the centre of Coventry are scheduled to completed in August 2019.
Expansion Set to Release Gateway Site for Student Development PLANNING permission has been submitted for the redevelopment of a three-storey factory to provide a new student scheme on an important gateway site to the west of the city. The existing factory has been home to City Styles for many years but, following their acquisition of larger premises on Parker Drive, the property is now surplus to requirements. 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. Advised by Leicester-based development agents Intali, City Styles appointed Staniforth Architects to assess the potential for development of this important but difficult site. Following extensive consultation with Leicester City Council planning department, an application has now been submitted for the demolition of the existing industrial units which will be replaced by new 79 student apartments with a total of 94 bedrooms and a ground floor retail unit. Mandeep Singh of City Styles commented that the re-development would help to ensure that City Styles continued to grow in their new City facility and that the scheme would improve both the street scene and links between the Waterside and city centre.
Ravenstone development site with consent for 9 dwellings SANSOM HAMILTON & Co are offering for sale a residential development site with outline consent for 9 dwellings at Jennys Lane, Ravenstone, Leicestershire. The Guide Price is £595,000. For more information, see advert on page 10, or contact Sansom Hamilton on 01530 274548 or email: mjs@sansomhamilton.co.uk