Route canal

Metropolitan Housing Trust is set to begin this £65m redevelopment of a Leicester bus depot. The development will include 731 flats, of which about 50% will be affordable.

The 8.5-acre site is next to the Grand Union Canal and the River Soar. Plans include water-based recreation facilities.

The project form part of a larger Metropolitan programme, which will result in a further 350 apartments to be built on the Leicester Square site in the city centre, and 208 homes built in nearby Thurmaston. Half of the new homes will be affordable.