Leicester Civic Society

Campaign: City Council Relocation: Reuse Historic Buildings

Leicester City Council are looking for new premises due to the crumbling state of New Walk Centre (a.k.a. "Fawlty Towers"). We're calling on the city council to take a heritage-friendly, sustainable approach by relocating departments to their empty heritage assets that are available across the city.

HELP US by signing our petition demanding the the city council use their imminent relocation as an opportunity to reuse as many empty heritage properties as possible.

For an in-depth report on our proposal read New Uses for Old Buildings by Civic Society Chairman Stuart Bailey (first published in our July 2010 journal)

Recent Leicester Mercury coverage of the issue here.

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What Can You Do About It?

Please do not sign petitions or send emails more than once using different email address identities as this will devalue our campaigns. If you want to help us get more responses please tell your friends and family about the campaign.

1. Sign our petition calling for reuse of heritage assets

Petition signatures will be presented to Leicester City Council.

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We the undersigned call upon Leicester City Council to relocate their New Walk Centre departments into their empty heritage buildings across the city
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2. Tell Your Friends

The more people that get involved the better chance we have of success. Please enter your name and email address plus the email addresses of your friends below and they will be sent a link to this campaign. Note: Leicester Civic Society will not store or use the email addresses of your friends for any other purpose.

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3. Join Us!

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