Summer will see the start of work to create a new £20m living and learning zone in Nuneaton. Warwickshire County Council has told CoventryLive that early preparatory work for the huge Justice Walk development will get underway in the early summer.
It comes after the £20m Justice Walk development, which will boast a new library, offices and up to 65 homes in the Vicarage Street area, was given the green light to go-ahead. But while it will bring new facilities to that end of the town centre, it will bring an end to the town's main library.
The facility, which has served generations for more than six decades, will be demolished. But, as yet. no date for this has been revealed. The county council says that a timetable is currently being drawn up.
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It is not known if the main library will remain open while the new one is created. A county council spokesperson said: "Following the successful outcome of the outline planning application WCC are now able to start preparation works for the site.
"A full delivery programme can now be prepared, detailing the anticipated timescales for works on site. It is expected that some early works will start on site this summer."
As well as the library going, the nearby Powell House building as well as the old home of Wilko and the current Royal Mail sorting office will also be flattened. It is already known that Royal Mail is having a new depot created in Hazell Way in Bermuda village.
