City Council refuses planning permission for student flats development

Nottingham City Council has refused planning permission to a new student accommodation development after saying it would “unbalance the community”.

The newbuild development would’ve housed 43 one-bedroom student studio apartments on the Former Red Cross building site on Gregory Street, Lenton.

A design and access statement prepared by Rayner Davies architects of Nottingham said: “The existing setting arguably does not provide a welcoming or attractive environment. However, there is the potential to greatly improve the visual amenity of the area with a well-designed new build project.”

However, Nottingham City Council did not agree, and has turned down the planning application which was made by Sajaid Mahmood.

In it’s decision, the Planning Committee said: “The proposed development would exacerbate the existing high concentration of students within this area and further contribute to an unbalanced community and associated amenity issues such as noise and disturbance and those associated with a demographic imbalance and a high level of residential turnover.”

The developers have six months to appeal the decision.