Plans revealed for 19-storey ‘landmark’ Nottingham scheme
Plans for what has called a “gateway, landmark” building on the edge of Nottingham city centre have been revealed.
Jensco has submitted plans for a 356 student bed development called Three Wilford Road, which will be built on the site of the former Sentinel building in the Southside regeneration area of Nottingham. It will front both Wilford Road and Traffic Street.
Documents seen by TheBusinessDesk.com outline a part-6, part-10, part-19 storey developmet that would also include studio and cluster apartments, amenity spaces, a public plaza and semi-public landscaping.
The flats will be made up of 222 cluster rooms, 112 studios and 22 studio suites.
The scheme is being designed by CMPG.
A planning statement said: “To create a dynamic and vibrant community, the project places a great focus to becoming an appropriate bookend to Traffic Street introducing a tower of appropriate height to mark this initiative. A positive accelerator of urban life created by a hierarchy of public realm spaces to the benefit of all the residents in the area. These spaces are reinforced through active frontages and have been configured to dialogue with the surrounding buildings.”
The scheme would be the second in the vicinity for Jensco, which is also developing out 10 Traffic Street into student accommodation.
The statement added: “Together with Three Wilford Road, these developments will result in a positive contribution to the vibrancy of the area and the surrounding developments. These schemes, together with the other neighbouring developments, create a place that is urban, engaging and dynamic as well as symbolising a return to residential development; we are witnessing the evolution of this area into the next historical chapter.”
In 2020, plans to build a 183 apartments on the site were shelved.
KMRE Group had previously submitted plans to build the scheme, which was planned to be 15 storeys in places.
Sentinel House was previously three-storey light industrial works, with a goods yard at the east end of the site. It was demolished in 2008 and the site has been vacant since. It is unsurfaced and in temporary use as a car park.
Planning permission for a mixed-use office and retail scheme has been twice approved (in 2007 and 2011) – but the scheme was neither time built.
