More than 1,000 UK Government employees will be moving into a towering new office block in Nottingham on Monday, April 11, following years of failed plans to redevelop a prime spot in the south of the city. By May a further 4,000 staff will have moved into what has been described as the most significant development in the East Midlands in more than a decade.
The Unity Square tower, off Sheriffs Way, was once the site of a multi-storey car park before it was demolished in 2017 to make way for fresh investment. A number of failed proposals were submitted in the years following, including a new base for Channel 4.
This never materialised, however, along with a number of other plans including a hotel and an office block that would have been partially inhabited by Nottingham City Council. It wasn't until 2018 that HMRC announced it had pre-let the tower block to be used as a new UK Government hub.
