Date: 19/11/2012

A developer which had wanted to demolish a Victorian railway building now wants to restore it. Jamie Lewis Residential had wanted to remove the 1890s Great Central Railway wagon repair works, next to Upperton Road, Leicester to make way for an eight-storey student flats complex. More than 400 people opposed the scheme and, following their objections, a planning application was withdrawn. The company has now submitted plans which keep the disused wagon works and propose a £10 million conversion into a medical centre, gym, drive-through restaurant and food store.

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This is the former Great Central wagon works on Upperton Road, Leicester, in March 2012. The building is currently - and appropriately - in use as a machine shop. See it soon - as it may shortly be demolished and replaced by student flats.
Location: Leicester Central MPD
Company: London Extension (Great Central Railway)
11/03/2012 Ken Strachan