Plans for 280-bed student block submitted...

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A cinema, gym and garden rooftop terrace have been included in plans to build a 281-bed student block behind Central Six Retail Park in Coventry.

The scheme at the end of Regent Street in Earlsdon also includes two courtyards, a common room with a games area as well as a separate laundry room.

Applicant Regent Street Partnership said the scheme – up to six storeys high – will provide “high-quality student rooms” and “attractive accommodation” on the edge of the city centre.

The application was validated by the council at the end of last month with a decision due in mid-December.

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Sigh, most of it is in Upper York Street, opposite the slaughterhouse. Only one tiny corner (at the back) is in 'Regent Street'.

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Huge Coventry student accommodation plan refused



Plans for a huge student accommodation complex in Coventry have been refused.

An application had been submitted to create a development consisting of 234 studio rooms on land at the south end of Regent Street in Earlsdon.

A previous application for student accommodation on the same site was turned down by Coventry City Council planners in September last year.

On that occasion the application was refused because of its scale and the impact it would have on local residents.

These were again reasons for refusal, along with it causing increased demand for on-street parking in an area where demand is already high.

The decisions notice also raised concerns about no measures being taken in relation to noise emanating from a music studio that already exists nearby.

The application was made by property agent GW Planning on behalf of the Regent Street Partnership.

Coventry City Council’s decision notice said: “The proposed development would be contrary to Policies H10, DE1 and AC3 of the Coventry Local Plan 2016 and the objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework by reason of the scale and significant intensification of use of the site to the serious detriment of the living conditions of neighbouring residents from increased noise, general disturbance and comings and goings from the student accommodation which will be in particularly close proximity to the properties and the boundaries to their private rear amenity space.

“Furthermore, it is considered that the proposal would result in an increase in demand for on-street parking in the locality where demand is already high and capacity limited, to the detriment of the amenities of the occupiers of the adjacent properties.”

The decision notice added that the development would “surround the rear gardens of the existing residential occupiers and result in significant harm to the amenities of these neighbours from loss of privacy”.

Concerning the existing music studio, the notice said: “Insufficient information has been submitted to demonstrate that the existing music studio and noise associated with it and emanating from it would not impact upon the amenities and living environment of the occupiers of the proposed new development.”