UGLY CONCRETE TO GO TO THE WALL

Growth across a town centre is set to go up with an installation of a living wall. 

Plans have been announced for Loughborough to have an environmentally sustainable feature on buildings made up of plants producing oxygen claimed to clean the air. 

Charnwood Borough Council is to use some of the recently awarded levelling up monies from the U.K. Shared Prosperity Fund from the government department of levelling up, housing and communities (DLHC) to put up the natural installation along the buildings in Devonshire Square. 

The announcement was made at a meeting of Charnwood Borough Council last week by Leader of the Council Counsillor Jonathan Morgan of Outwoods Ward.  

He said some of the £4M fund the council’s just heard it’s to receive, to be made available over three years can go towards the emission – reducing feature. 

The project, backed by Loughborough business improvement district (BID) Love Loughborough intends to transform an ugly concrete façade in Devonshire Square into a beautiful living feature.  

The existing front above a row of shops would be covered in the Living Wall which would see panels of plants added to the building to grow and bring nature into the town centre. 

The Living Wall is claimed to benefit the town’s people by reducing pollution and noise nuisance, can make buildings more energy efficient, moderating temperature and reducing energy costs. 

Cllr Morgan announced it as one of a number of measures to be implemented through the levelling – up fund.