Developer Blueprint (Igloo) are presently working alongside ASRA (Leicester Housing Association) to build a number of new social houses on the site of the former Co-op store in Carlton Road.
This store was opened in 1975 and closed down on valentines day 2008, a period of 33 years.
The Co-op building has an iconic design with its white spanned structure, and no supporting pillars inside the store itself.
It is in fact a two story building, as their is office space, store room, and staff facilities on the upper floor. Then there is the main grocery store itself, which sits above the secure ground floor car park.
The main car park area is located at the side of the Co-op with access from Seymour Street.
Seymour Street runs from a cull-de-sac adjacent Carlton Road to Stonebridge Road. The Co-op warehouse is the building at the back of the Co-op store at the Seymour / Stonebridge Road junction. The main warehouse wall runs along Stonebridge Road to St Matthias Road, which indicates just how big this building is.
Historically, the Co-op store is built on the site of a Victorian Infant & junior school, since demolished, while the warehouse is located on the site of the school playground.
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ReplyDeleteI believe before the co op it was the dining halls to the old Hogarth infant school where pupils had to walk down for lunch then back up to school
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