Boots to create a community next to Nottingham headquarters

Pharmacy giant Boots plans to create a community next to its Nottingham headquarters focused on wellbeing, said a senior director.The retailer has selected North Yorkshire-based modular housing company ilke Homes to deliver 622 homes at the site, making it the UK’s largest low-rise modular housing scheme.The development will be part of the wider 286-acre Nottingham Enterprise Zone in the Beeston area of Nottingham. It also includes the MediCity innovation hub and the multinational medical products manufacturer Reckitt has its largest UK manufacturing facility at the site.It is hoped work on the housing scheme can begin next summer.Chivers is one of the speakers at The Nottingham: Creating a Sustainable City online forum, which takes place from 10am on Tuesday 14 September. It will look at how the city’s aim to become the UK’s first – and Europe’s second – carbon neutral city by 2028 can attract major investment. A big focus of the event will also be on how the city connects together its major regenerations schemes, such as the Broadmarsh site, the Island Quarter and the enterprise zone.Other speakers at the hour-long forum are Lorraine Baggs, head of inward investment at Invest in Nottingham; Greg Nugent, chair of the Greater Broadmarsh Advisory Group; Chris Ware, property director at Conygar, developer of the £650m Island Quarter project, Wayne Bexton, director of carbon reduction, energy and sustainability, Nottingham City Council and Deborah Gordon Brown, partner at law firm Shoosmiths.To register to watch the forum call Lianne Reid on 0161 907 9741, email lianne.reid@newsco.com or click here.