Renovations on Leicester’s St George Street have created a more attractive and people-friendly route linking the railway station and city centre with the businesses and attractions in the Cultural Quarter.
The 22-week contract produced a modern and attractive gateway by installing rainwater gardens to aid drainage.
The result is a vibrant promenade composed of resin-bonded gravel walkways, newly landscaped areas and upgraded signage, street lighting and fencing.
The St George Street redevelopment focused on a series of rain gardens along the edges of the footpath, along with new trees, to provide the area with improved drainage as part of the city’s sustainable urban drainage system.
The rain gardens are shallow landscaped depressions that reduce rainfall runoff and mitigate the impact of pollution by enhancing the capacity of the surface water piped drainage network.
In years to come, the city centre will benefit from large, mature, healthy trees which will provide an aesthetically pleasing, green and diverse canopy above the promenade.
| Client: Leicester City Council |
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| Contractor: Danaher & Walsh |
| Designer: Pick Everard |
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