ProCon Leicestershire Awards 2025
The county’s largest celebration of the built environment and the people who develop, design and construct winning developments. Showcasing the best projects, developments and now rising stars in construction, property and the built environment in Leicestershire and Rutland. The winners of the Regeneration Project of the Year Award are decided by a panel of expert judges and this year there were three very worthy finalists.
Jewry Wall Museum
The Jewry Wall Museum regeneration restored and reimagined a Grade II listed 1962 museum as an inclusive, accessible and sustainable cultural destination that will be a vibrant hub for learning, tourism and community engagement. The project created a dynamic new museum that blends cutting-edge technology with historic conservation, offering immersive audio-visual storytelling, interactive displays and more than 100 Roman artefacts located in Leicestershire.
Leicester Cathedral Revealed
A major project at Leicester Cathedral featuring subtle repairs and renovations plus the design of an extension has made a lasting impact. The project plays a significant role in supporting the economic revitalisation of Leicester’s Cathedral Quarter and the wider city. By enhancing the Cathedral’s infrastructure and introducing the new Heritage Learning Centre (HLC), the development has unlocked new economic potential.
Charnwood Campus Building 28 Loughborough
Charnwood Campus Building 28 is a transformation of a dormant laboratory building into a futureproofed, high specification research and development hub. Located within the UK’s first Life Sciences Opportunity Zone, this ambitious project regenerated 9,417 square metres of vacant lab infrastructure in just 12 months.
The developments were judged on the following criteria
- Impact of the project – the extent to which the project has impacted on the building, development, surrounding area
- Economic regeneration benefits of the scheme – jobs created or saved, investment brought in, training provided, etc.
- Social, community and environmental regeneration benefits – including facilities for local residents, support for community groups, sustainability features, etc.
- Response to constraints and other regeneration factors – e.g. how dealt with brownfield land, contaminated land, listed building status, etc.
- Quality of design and building/conservation works
- Development sensitivity – to the surrounding area
- Innovation used in the project
- Budgetary considerations – e.g. funding streams accessed, public versus private funding received,
The Charnwood Campus, B28 team was outstanding collaborative project, comprising of Charnwood Campus, Couch Perry Wilkes, Mellor Bromley, Pulse Consult, Charnwood Borough Council, Leicestershire Country Council, Leicester City Council and the LLEP and was partially publicly funded through the Enterprise Zone Reinvestment Fund.
Gosia Khrais, Director of Charnwood Campus, Science Innovation and Technology Park, said: “Building 28 is a bold, successful blueprint for science-led, sustainability-driven regeneration. It is emblematic of Charnwood Campus’s broader ambition to develop into a globally competitive life sciences cluster centred on sustainability, collaboration and innovation. B28 is now home to Kindeva’s Global Meter Dose Inhaler (MDI) centre of excellence developing low-carbon alternatives for respiratory medicines. Our region is home to world-class universities, thriving innovation clusters, and a growing manufacturing base and projects such as B28 enable us to create tangible health and economic impacts.”