New plans could be approved this week to breathe new life into the derelict site of a Newcastle city centre café that was destroyed by a fire.
Hundreds of student flats are earmarked for the former home of the NE4 café and Lock and Key restaurant, near St James’ Park, which were demolished after a blaze ripped through the building in 2015. The vacant plot of land in Heber Street has been the subject of several redevelopment plans in the years since, none of which have come to fruition.
But the latest proposals for the site are now due before city councillors this Friday, with a 12-storey student accommodation block expected to be approved. Designs from Downing Students would see more than 400 students housed in a complex made up of 293 standalone studio apartments and another 20 ‘clusters’ flats.
