Architects produce animation of Leicester market revamp
A computer animation has been created to try to give people an impression of the proposed £7 million revamp of Leicester market.
The city council has produced the two minute clip to show off the modern new fish and meat hall it intends to build at the side of the 19th century Corn Exchange.
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An image from the computer animation created to try to give people an impression of the proposed £7 million revamp of Leicester market
As previously reported in the Leicester Mercury, the council wants to demolish the existing 1970s indoor market which city mayor Sir Peter Soulsby has described as dank and squalid and develop a new public square in its place.
Today the council has launched a six week consultation on its scheme.
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Sir Peter said: "I hope people will be excited by what we hope to do to improve the market which is a vital part of the city centre economy.
"It can be hard to visualise plans from drawings so we have done this short walk-through to better demonstrate what we have in mind."
Sir Peter said there would be room to tweak the designs following consultation, but said he wanted to press ahead and have the new hall built and open by Christmas.
After that, the old building would be flattened and the square created over the following 12 months.
Officials will be holding a number of sessions at the Corn Exchange over the next few weeks to explain the proposal to shoppers.
Comments
by anobserver
Saturday, January 12 2013, 3:53PM
“Seem to be the usual shortage of litter bins and street cleaning machines.Just remembered,sneaky is selling the machines off in a few months.Maybe he thinks they are as good as the gum removal system that he signed up for at £1000k a year.Anyone notice ?”
by daveb0360
Saturday, January 12 2013, 2:07PM
“I personally can't see the need for all things 'pretty'. At the end of the day, it's the goods you are buying that need to be good quality and I can't see that having a pretty building is going to have an influence on the quality of the goods. If you want your produce that is sold at the market, you will shop at the market regardless of what it looks like.
This predisposition for aesthetics and prettiness is a wasted goal and serves only to portray how shallow and easily led we are when it comes to appearance.
Once you have your spuds at home and are peeling them for a meal, you will have long forgotten how pretty the outlet was that sold them to you. Far more important to have cleanliness and availability with value for money IMHO.
After all, farm shops are the best outlet going for these types of produce and they are rarely 'pretty' or aesthetic places to shop.
Total waste of money.......our money!!!!”
by anobserver
Saturday, January 12 2013, 6:12AM
“"red"so you must havefound the toilets then !”
by Anon66
Saturday, January 12 2013, 4:44AM
“We come from out of town to shop in Leicester and could easily go to Derby or Nottingham. The market is a big attraction for us. Prices,range and quality of produce are good (normally) and stallholders always friendly. An infinitely better experience than trawling round the supermarkets.
The big drawback has been for some time now the outdated meat and fish building which needs integrating more into the main market area. In our view this proposal needs implementing as soon as possible and has our full support.”
by nottsred
Saturday, January 12 2013, 1:29AM
“My main concern is the law that the animation suggests is going to be brought in that means you are only allowed to visit the market in pairs, and must stand around pointing at things.”
by Bob491
Friday, January 11 2013, 10:25PM
“It looks great whatever the boring right wing clowns think. Well done Sir Peter.
Like so many others I won't go into the current building, it is so dreadful. I wonder how many of the posters here regularly visit it. I'm sure if they did, they would be all in favour of the scheme.”
by zetta
Friday, January 11 2013, 7:30PM
“They will spend more on this "animation" to push it through than they will do to market it and mabage it effectiveley. Plus, it all adds up to no Indoor Market for Leicester - just a bigger market corner”
by Pilby67
Friday, January 11 2013, 5:00PM
“The new building looks nice in this photgraph but will it in real life as once permissions been granted they will change it, mind you probably a good thing as at the moment it reminds me Aldi's superstores I've seen. I suppose the architect didn't disign these as well did he?”
by leic-star
Friday, January 11 2013, 4:02PM
“Lets hope the new market is not classed as a waste of money in 5-10 years time with alot of traders going bust due to more people shopping on the internet.
I rarely used to see the odd supermarket van delivering food now and again a few years ago,
Now i see loads of them everyday, more and more people are shopping online now even for groceries.”
by Mr_Ryan_M
Friday, January 11 2013, 3:30PM
“@ Red_Ned
I do not batte against what the council suggests, in fact I didn't agree or disagree with the idea of the market. (Which is a good idea in principal as the old building is awful.)
I was simply stating that Pete will do what he wants, no matter what the people of Leicester think!
As "democrat" says, there is no real consultation, Pete says what he wants to happen, the public disagree and then he does it anyway.
He is a businessman who is out for his own gain, he became Mayor for his own means, not to serve the people of Leicester.”