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Architect Ken Shuttleworth suffered a setback after his designs for a 拢120m scheme in the centre of Coventry were shelved.

His Make practice drew up a design last year for a hotel and residential development on the edge of the city centre, only for the developers to lose interest.

The scheme, Park Court, designed in conjunction with commercial firm RHWL, was to have included 350 apartments as well as bars, restaurants and at least one hotel on a three-acre site opposite Coventry railway station that is presently occupied by an Inland Revenue building.

The site is owned by Cassidy Developments, which has gone into a joint venture partnership with the Catesby Property Group. The two firms formed a third company, Park Court Properties, to handle the scheme. Make鈥檚 project leader for the scheme, John Prevc, said that the two architects鈥� proposals had been well received initially.

鈥淲e presented the scheme to the council last year and everyone loved it: it was quite radical and intended to be a signpost for the city. But then there was a lot of hemming and hawing and it all went very quiet.鈥�

Coventry council confirmed that Make and RHWL design had stalled, commenting: 鈥淯nfortunately, their scheme seems unlikely to go ahead鈥�.

Park Court Properties said it was taking the scheme forward with another architect, Midlands firm Turner Woolford Sharp. Make and RHWL won the first stage of the competition but TWS won the second stage.