Designs revealed for St Saviour's Yard box park in Norwich

The businesses are due to be moved to a new location underneath the Magdalen Street flyover ahead of demolition works beginning this summer. 

However, the box park - a food and retail centre made out of refitted shipping containers - cannot be built until planning permission is granted.

The council has been scrambling to find temporary homes for traders before they have to leave Anglia Square this weekend, but one still has nowhere to go.

A spokesman for Norwich City Council said "financial support" will be provided where necessary while businesses wait to move into the box park development. 

When it is built, the council has guaranteed all Anglia Square businesses a space in the development, called St Saviour's Yard, or an alternative location in the city. 

Designs for the new box park (Image: Norwich City Council) Norwich City Council bought Anglia Square last year and was awarded a total of £34m by the government to cover the costs of its purchase and razing the site. 

The temporary box park will be used to house businesses while this work is under way.

The project will include a total of 86 units home to independent traders, office spaces for creative and tech start-up businesses and event spaces. 

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Magdalen Street car park under the flyover (Image: Sophie Wylie) The 40ft and 20ft shipping containers would be installed in the Magdalen Street Car Park off St Saviour's Lane and the council hopes to commission local artists to install murals to brighten up the boxes. 

The £300m revamp of Anglia Square, which would have seen up to 1,100 new homes built along with office, retail and leisure space, was suddenly scrapped earlier this year after its developers said the scheme was no longer financially viable. 

This led to the council stepping in and seeking government support to bring the site into public ownership. 

A spokesman for Norwich City Council said: "We have been working closely with all traders at Anglia Square to find them a permanent solution when Anglia Square closes or a temporary one until the box park opens.

"This support to traders includes financial support and practical solutions to maintaining their trade while they are committed to going to the box park."