Opening in September 2018, Godiva Place is a large student accommodation block in the centre of Coventry just five minutes from the University right next to a large supermarket and shopping centre. It boasts 800 student rooms comprising of suites, twudios and en suite bedrooms.

In addition, the scheme will provide ancillary support facilities, social hub, car parking, landscaping and improvements to the public realm. The design, by Lewis & Hickey, combines a perimeter block to provide a defined street edge and protect the interior of the site, with a series of finger blocks to maximise daylight into and through the site. Works started in the summer of 2016 and has involved over 800 operatives.

The Architect was Lewis and Hickey, a large multi office award winning practice, established for over a century, one of their areas of expertise is Student Living.

The main contractor was Galliford Try, a FTSE 250 business and one of the UK’s leading housebuilding, regeneration and construction groups with revenues of £2.8 billion.

The stone anchoring design and fixing contract was won by Speedclad out of Birmingham, a leading façade subcontractor in the midlands.