Planning bosses back ‘significantly changed’ student accommodation scheme
Plans for a major student accommodation scheme in Nottingham city centre have received the backing of planning bosses at the city council.
PMI Developments and Harcourt Land and Development want to build a three-, five-, six- and nine-storey scheme on the site of a warehouse on Glasshouse Street in the Eastside area of Nottingham, behind the Victoria Shopping Centre.
The site currently includes a single storey industrial building, used recently for the sale of tyres and motor-related goods.
The plans outline a scheme which would provide up to 247 student accommodation units in a combination of 37 cluster flats providing 197 bed spaces and 50 individual studio flats.
The scheme has significantly changed since the application was first submitted. Originally it was proposed that the development would comprise of blocks varying in height from ground floor plus five storeys to lower ground floor, and ground floor plus 16 storeys. The scheme originally proposed 401 student beds, provided within 57 cluster flats (361 beds in total) and 40 studios.
Nottingham Civic Society objected to the original scheme, because its height and bulk would “harm the setting of an adjacent listed building2 and would “interrupt and thereby damage key views identified in adopted and emerging guidance”.
The scheme, designed by CPMG, will be voted on by Nottingham City Council’s planning committee on Wednesday April 23.
