A city car park on the grounds of a stunning old textile factory has been earmarked for multi-million-pound student flats.
Built more than 150 years ago as a factory for lace dressers John and William Lambert, Stanley House, in Talbot Street, has been converted into student accommodation with around 100 bedrooms.
Previously it had been vacant for several years and used as offices.
Developers have now put forward a bid to build a new student block on a car park which used to serve the offices.
At its highest point, the building will have five levels and include more than 40 beds.
Speaking about the history of the site, conservationist Ian Wells, vice chair of the Nottingham Civic Society, said: "Stanley House was built as a flagship Victorian factory by leading Nottingham benefactors the Lambert brothers.
"Its tower was said to have been built to rival that of St Mary's church, visible across the city in the Lace Market, with other roof features associated with Wollaton Hall, all important factors when the building was saved at a public inquiry through the representations of Nottingham Civic Society and the Victorian Society and replicated when the facade was rebuilt after its collapse a few years later.
"After that it was sympathetically converted to offices, and its noble facade to Talbot Street will remain in the latest plans."
He added: "The new work in the space between the Victorian building and the post-modern one is not inappropriate. All we would ask is that in height, as the application suggests, it does not impinge on the existing buildings, and that in materials it respects what is there already."
Richard Singh, development director at BSP Holdings, said the "scheme has been designed primarily as cluster flats based on feedback from Nottingham Trent University". This type of accommodation, he said, was "in demand amongst students".
"It's ideal for the students to be able to access their campus and the facilities within the city centre."
The car park, providing 16 spaces, is located to the north of Stanley House.
The site is situated between the former textile factory and the Belgrave Centre.
A small number of studio flats are also in the pipeline.
The plans were drawn up on behalf of the developers by CBP Architects.
