Councillors vote huge new student scheme through

Plans to build a 422-bed student accommodation block on a prominent Nottingham city centre site have been given the go-ahead.

Nottingham City Council’s planning committee have the green light to Hydrogen York Street, which will develop the York House site on Mansfield Road into a student block that will include a mixture of studio flats and cluster bedrooms between four and ten storeys high.

The former York House office building site was cleared in 2014 in anticipation of the extension of the Intu Victoria Centre. However, intu said the plot no longer forms part of its development plans. ]

The site was sold by intu in November last year, with reports at the time suggesting Sports Direct was the buyer.

The building will be dedicated to housing students attending Nottingham’s universities. In addition to student bedrooms and studios there will be amenity areas on the lower levels of the building including communal lounge areas, café-style spaces, meeting rooms and an on-site gym.

The scheme is being designed by Franklin Ellis architects.