Engineers at BSP Consulting were involved in a recent Leicester neighbourhood improvements scheme to boost safety and access in communal areas of a city housing estate.
The £1.2m project focused on Ottawa Road and the corner of Edmonton Road in St Matthews and involved removing old brick garages and bin stores and replacing them with new parking bays, new street lighting and railings.
It is the first phase of a £5million, three-year programme, which will also see further improvements in nearby St Matthews and St Peters in areas such as public open space, road safety and the environment, by 2024.
It is part of a commitment made in 2019 to invest in improving the two estates, by taking into account local issues ranging from overgrown plants to maintenance and cleansing issues to help make public areas safer and more user-friendly.
Civil and structural engineer
BSP Consulting, working out of the firm’s Leicester office, was the civil and structural engineer on the project – supporting through all RIBA stages.
BSP director Paul Elphick said: “As a company with a well-established office in Leicester, BSP has worked on many improvement schemes in the city over the years. This particular project in St Matthews follows long-term work between Leicester City Council’s neighbourhood housing team, ward councillors, and local tenants’ and residents’ associations to identify the problems that they most wanted to see addressed, such as fly-tipping, shortage of parking and safety issues.
“BSP was very pleased to be appointed on this Leicester neighbourhood improvements scheme. We are delighted to have played a part in introducing improvements to the area.”
For more details of the scheme, visit https://news.leicester.gov.uk/news-articles/2023/january/ottawa-road-improvement-scheme-completed/
