Everards, Leicester
Everards Meadows comprises a new home for Everards Brewery, a café/bar and cycle centre together with extensive areas of green infrastructure extending down to the River Soar.
Everards Meadows – located on land south of Soar Valley Way, Enderby, Leicestershire – comprises a new home for Everards Brewery, a café/bar and cycle centre together with extensive areas of green infrastructure extending down to the River Soar. FPCR carried out extensive surveys and prepared the original opportunities and constraints analysis for the scheme as well as being lead designers during the outline planning stage.
Following outline approval, FPCR were appointed the landscape consultants to Everards Brewery for the design, implementation and management of the landscape framework. The extensive green infrastructure proposals include detailed landscape proposals for the new development together with approximately 30 Ha of greenspace being opened up for public access in the Soar Valley floodplain. As part of the new access arrangements a new footway/ cycle bridge has been constructed over the River Soar connecting with the national sustrans pedestrian and cycleway enabling easy travel into the City of Leicester.
The Practice has also provided Arboricultural Assessments and detailed Arboricultural Method Statements for the scheme.
Phase 1B for Everards Meadows was completed in 2021 and includes food and drink, a shop and outside eating area complementing the previous award winning phase 1A and the wider scheme with the cycle centre, cafe and extensive meadows, public car parking and cycling routes with a footbridge over the River Soar providing easy cycle links into Leicester.
FPCR landscape team have also worked with Franklin Ellis Architects and Marrons Planning on the outline planning application for Phase 2 of the wider Everards Meadows scheme which has been granted outline planning permission for 9290sqm of office campus, together with a new hotel with associated parking and landscaping, providing an extension to the Everards of Leicestershire key tourist destination for Leicestershire.
