The residential development at Whitley Village, Coventry is on the former site of three disused office buildings located either side of Whitley Village Road and to the east of London Road to the southeast of Coventry.
The construction comprises a 32 unit, six-storey apartment block containing four floors of 6 units and two floors each with 4 units with communal access facilities at one end, together with 12 additional two- and three-storey semi-detached and terraced properties of timber framed construction.
The superstructure framework for the apartment block consists of a timber frame clad externally with various contrasting materials including brickwork, render, patent glazing and proprietary cladding panels. Due to the predominantly glazed façade a steel-framed structure provides communal access to all floors.
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British United Shoe Machinery (BUSM) Limited was once a company which for most of the 20th century was the world's largest manufacturer of footwear machinery and materials, exporting shoe machinery to more than 50 countries.
In the 1960s and 1970s, it was Leicester’s biggest employer employing more than 4,500 locally and 9500 worldwide.
In 2010 Planning permission was granted to redevelop the former factory site involving an extensive, phased residential development which gives new life to part of inner city Leicester.
The development included extensive demolition, site remediation and ground improvement, and the new construction encountered and had to overcome numerous buried sub-structures.
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