This development started in August 1984 and substantially let from 1st December 1984, takes the form of a Piazza with 8 shops, 6 small and 2 large, surrounding the featured centre courtyard with its surface of coordinated cobbles.
The main structure of the development is of Bison Pre-cast concrete columns and open span beams topped with hollow core concrete slab roof panels all designed in conformity with our already proven and successful ‘rubber wall’ technique, which, by restricting the load bearing walls to the very minimum allows maximum choice of unit size etc to suit out tenants initial requirements, but at the same time retains the ability to allow subsequently splitting-up or re-grouping of units to meet changing demands from tenants.
Over the pre-cast skeleton system, the building has been finished with high quality Butterley facing brick and this together with the fact that the south elevation incorporates a front canopy finished in real slate provides an attractive entrance to the shopping centre.
