PROPERTY £16.7m grant awarded to Southbank Centre Te winning design from NHM for redevelopment


Niall McLaughlin to revamp Natural History Museum


Te Natural History Museum (NHM) has announced Niall McLaughlin Architects, in collaboration with Kim Wilkie, as the winners of their Civic Realm competition to come up with a redesign for the grounds of the historic London attraction. Niall McLaughlin was chosen from a


shortlist of five architectural practices also including Stanton Williams, Grant Associates, Land Use Consultants and BIG. The Civic Realm competition was


launched to help address visitor engage- ment, care of the collection and renewal of the building, as part of a wider mas- terplan development framework created in 2012 for the five-million visitor a year attraction. http://lei.sr?a=d9e9P


Work starts on £80m Crescent leisure project


Construction work on an £80m leisure development in southwest Leicestershire has begun month, with the project aiming to regenerate Hinckley town centre. The Crescent development, a joint


project by the Tin Hat Regeneration Partnership and Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council, will see the construction of a Sainsbury’s supermarket with an inte- grated car park and a five-screen Cineworld multiplex cinema, plus family restaurants. The project is earmarked to open in


autumn 2015, with Bowmer & Kirkland to carry out construction work at the site, based on designs from TP Bennett Architects. Te long-running project has not been


without issues though, with Sainsbury’s threatening to pull out of the develop- ment at one point last year, while Te Tin Hat Partnership was also helped out by the Borough Council, which invested £7m in the form of a short-term rolling loan to push the project forward. The project underwent construction


on Monday 2 June, based on a plan- ning application that was approved by councillors in December of last year. Details: http://lei.sr?a=F3d5r


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The Southbank Centre, London, is to receive funding from Arts Council England to carry out part of a conserva- tion project across the site. The £16.7m grant will


fund the repair and mainte- nance of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery. Starting in 2015, the project will begin to address an accumulated back- log of £24m worth of repairs. Arts Council England


will meet 70 per cent of the required conservation budget, while the centre is planning to raise the rest of the funds from trusts, philanthropists and visitors. Rick Haythornthwaite, chair of the


Te Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre will be under repair


Southbank Centre, said: “We are very grateful to Arts Council England for so


generously supporting the urgent repair… Tis is an important step following the delay to our Festival Wing scheme in February.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=J4a3x


£370m mixed-use ‘village’ for Islington


A new £370m mixed-use ‘vil- lage’ is to be built in Islington on the site of the former North London Sorting Centre, which has been operated by the Royal Mail since 1904. Developer Sager Group


is behind the plans for the 500,000sq ft (46,452sq m) mixed use Islington Square project, which will feature 170,000sq ſt (15,794sq m) of retail and leisure space along with 356 residential units. CZWG Architects assisted


with the design, while Cushman & Wakefield will work alongside Orme Retail and Shelly Sandzer as letting agents for the retail and lei- sure aspect – which will include shops, cafes, restaurants, a health club and cinema. Sager has owned the majority of the site for


a number of years while it obtained detailed planning consents. It is now in advanced


Te development will include shops, cafes, restaurants and a health club


negotiations with a number of occupiers to take key elements of the scheme. Sager’s construction programme is


expected to last approximately 24 months, with the plan – all being well – enabling retailers to open in time for Christmas 2016. Details: http://lei.sr?a=G6D2W


Public to be consulted over South Shields development


Planners are to begin discussions with the public over a proposed £100m mixed-use redevelopment of South Shields town centre. South Tyneside Council and developer


Muse Developments are expected to show- case first-stage development plans to locals,


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital


with alterations being put forward to provide a positive impact to all areas of town life. These will include improvements to


shopping and leisure facilities, as well as travel and access around the town. Details: http://lei.sr?a=y6B2f


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