First look at Nuneaton town centre's new food hall as construction milestone hit

Nuneaton's new food hall is starting to take shape on the Grayson Place development on the old Co-op car park an where New Century Way once stood
-Credit:CoventryLive


A first glimpse has been given of Nuneaton's first food hall. It is being built on land where part of the Co-op department store used to stand in Abbey Street.

The steel frames for the food hall, which will play home to a number of eateries, are now in place. CoventryLive was given access to the construction site where phase 2 of the Grayson Place development is taking place.

The first phase of the huge regeneration project was the creation of the Hampton-by-Hilton hotel. The 145-bed hotel, the first of its kind in the town, opened in September last year.

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Now a new milestone has been hit - Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council has signed the contract with BAM Construction to deliver the second phase of the project.

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This includes the food hall, which will eventually have a full glass front which will face out onto a new 'public realm' area with seating. When it was first announced, it was billed as a Liverpool GPO-style food hall with a number of different concessions inside.

The two-storey will have balconies which will allow for outdoor dining, as well as indoor. Members of the council's planning committee had initially raised eyebrows about this, with one dubbing it a food factory before the plans were officially given the go-ahead.

Nuneaton's new food hall is starting to take shape on the Grayson Place development on the old Co-op car park an where New Century Way once stood
Nuneaton's new food hall is starting to take shape on the Grayson Place development on the old Co-op car park an where New Century Way once stood -Credit:CoventryLive

The vision is for the food hall to complement the North Warwickshire and Hinckley College restaurant, which is being moved from the Hinckley Road-based campus.

The college restaurant will form part of the new multi-million pound digital skills and innovation hub, which is also being built on the site.