Eight-storey student block planned for Nottingham’s Eastside

How the new scheme would look

Plans for more student accommodation in Nottingham city centre have been revealed.

Environment Design Services says it wants to build 72 student units at a new scheme called Union Place on a vacant site on the corner of Union Road and Curzon Street in the city.

The new comes in the same week as a 422-bed student block at York House was passed by Nottingham City Council’s planning committee.

Plans show Union Place will be eight storeys high and will be spread across eight cluster flats.

A planning statement reads: “The scale of the building has been designed to be in keeping with that of the modern developments that now dominate the area rather than that of the existing buildings on the south side of Union Road. Ultimately the aim is to redevelop the rest of the block between Union Road and St Marks Street, apart from the Foresters Inn and the modern buildings immediately adjacent to the Inn and Six Degrees [also a student block], with new student accommodation with some retail floorspace on the ground floor.

“The proposal will fulfil an economic role by bringing forward the development of a vacant brownfield site and by providing employment during the construction phase.”

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