Campaigners protest over eyesore on former Bowstring Bridge site.
A group of campaigners who failed to save a Leicester bridge from demolition in November 2009 have called the development site “an eyesore”.
Bowstring Bridge and a nearby pub in the city’s West End were dismantled to make way for a new leisure centre. De Montfort University have not yet submitted a planning application for the sporting facility, but say it is set to be filed by autumn 2010.
Leicester City Council say they have no definite plans for the remaining area. Derek Hollingworth from Leicester Civic Society is concerned about the visual progress taking place at the site. “You’ve got part of the viaduct still here, it’s covered in graffiti, you’ve got the site where the pub was and there’s still bricks here. Nothing’s happened; it’s just been cordoned off with some second-hand railing that came from Mill Lane and that’s it, that’s what we’ve got.”
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