Hinckley Town
Centre
Developments
24 March 2011
WHAT WE WILL COVER
1. Key Development Sites.
2. Regent Street.
3. Station Road improvements.
£200m TOWN CENTRE INVESTMENT
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New Development Prospectus
INWARD INVESTMENT
(PRESENT AND PROGRAMMED)
INVESTMENT PROGRAMME
c. £1bn. Borough-wide.
c. £200m. Town Centre:
THE CRESCENT (Bus Station)
THE CRESCENT
£80m Scheme
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5 screen cinema
Food store – 100,000 sq ft [gross]
28 retail units – 75,000 sq ft
10 restaurants and cafes
12 lane bowling
560 car spaces
New bus station
THE CRESCENT
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4.
Planning consent granted!
Preliminary demolition works
start this year.
Works programmed to
commence Summer 2012.
Scheme opens 2014.
Original concepts
STATION ROAD
• £300k of street
improvements secured
from The Crescent
scheme.
• What happens next.
ATKINS BUILDING
Unique flagship town centre project.
45,000 sq. ft. mixed-use refurbishment.
£9.2m project (HBBC & EMDA funded).
Opened 28 September.
Award winning project
Lower Ground floor - Let
Ground floor - Café let.
First floor - 50% let
Second floor - Available
Car park : 96 spaces
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NORTH WARKS & HINCKLEY
COLLEGE
Performance art.
Media.
Graphic design.
Creative Arts.
Studio theatre.
NEW COLLEGE
Works on Programme.
Opens Sept 2011.
£18m investment.
‘HINCKLEY HUB’
• Developer: MRP
Developments
• Planning consent in
place.
• Works started!
• Council move in 2012.
Old Fludes factory
MRP Development’s scheme
HINCKLEY HUB
MRP Development’s scheme:
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Operational offices, council chamber,
reception, parking.
Accelerated single move to high eco rated
(‘BREEAM’) offices.
Green Travel: close Rail and Bus routes.
MRP Development’s scheme
SKETCHLEY BROOK
Planning consent granted!.
£0.25m contribution to town
centre transport
improvements.
GOODMAN’s Scheme:
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350 Dwellings.
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2,000 jobs.
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Local centre.
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B2 B8 ‘sheds’
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A5 access.
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New parks.
Tesco
Station
Bus station
Hinckley
Hub
Lidl
Sketchley
Brook
Tesco
Station
Richard Roberts
factory site
Sparkenhoe
RAILWAY STATION AREA
The Council has not yet taken
any decision to progress any
scheme here.
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ARGENTS MEAD
Council moving out in 2012.
Retirement Village concept.
Public consultations
completed.
Pledge to keep and improve
key park areas.
Hospital
Castle Street
Baptist
Church
Baptist
Church
Mount Road
Options 1 & 2
Mount Road
Option 3
CHURCH WALK CAR PARK
1. Masterplan design
concepts for new shops
and car park
2. Outline proposals only at
this stage.
View from Castle Street
Britannia
Centre
Possible new
car park deck
Co-op
REGENT STREET
•Revised highway
options study
underway.
•Options.
•Study funded by
Council, EMDA
and BID Co.
1. MIRA launch of £300m
Technology Park
investment programme
2. Major ‘RGF’ Bid submitted.
3. Huge boost to Hinckley’s
profile.
4. Planning Application to be
submitted March 2011.
2,000 new jobs.
750 acre site.
30 year growth plan.
Cutting edge technology.
Home to 32 world class
companies.
ANY QUESTIONS