Councillors reveal details of planned demolition method.
Leicester City Council’s former headquarters will be demolished using a “controlled collapse”, it has been confirmed.
The two tower blocks on New Walk, which were closed after being ruled unsafe, will be brought down in the new year.
It follows a 10 week investigation to establish the safest method of demolishing the office buildings.
The authority said the controlled blast would bring the “blocks down into their own footprint in a matter of seconds”.
The offices, a large landmark building in the city centre, were handed over in July to demolition firm DSM, which has since been carrying out preparatory works at the site.
Testing found other possible methods of demolition – including gradual dismantling – would be impractical because of the decaying state of the building.
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