Ashford Road, Leicester

  • Student accommodation
  • 34 beds
  • 3 storey load bearing masonry construction with traditional foundation
  • Contaminated soils imported to fill clay extraction pit adjacent to the historic brick factory.
  • Negotiations with Severn Trent Water over multiple large diameter sewers within site.

Services Provided

Structural, Civil, Drainage, Infrastructure, Traffic, Transportation,

Neighbouring the Brookland Road project, Farrow Walsh advised on the phased demolition of the existing structures with 1200mm diameter public sewers running through the site.

A particularly tight site to develop with varying ground depths due to the historic minerals extraction pit adjacent to the site from a pre-existing brick factory meant the foundations had to be piled.

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