Architecture and design practice RG&P has worked up plans for 360 new homes on a canalside site in Leicester that was once occupied by the world’s largest manufacturer of footwear machines.

The scheme at Charles Bennion Walk, around one mile north of the city centre, was created for Trafalgar Global and comprises seven apartment blocks of up to five storeys and 43 houses.

It forms part of a wider regeneration plan first envisaged around 20 years ago that includes schemes at Wolsey Island and Abbey Park Road, which RG&P also designed.

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