A property developer has lodged an appeal against a Nottinghamshire council due to one of his projects at an old college site going undecided for 10 months. Arran Bailey, the managing director of the ALB Group, is developing Nottingham College's former Beeston campus on High Road in Chilwell.
The project has been split into three phases, with the biggest one involving the creation of 162 student apartments. That aspect of the project was recently approved after months of wrangling, which involved an appeal being made against Broxtowe Borough Council for originally refusing it.
The government concluded that there were no unacceptable impacts on the local area because of the project, but Mr Bailey said that the planning appeal process took a "massive toll" on his company. Although the first apartments are set to be ready by September 2023, Mr Bailey now says that he has lodged another appeal over one of the other three phases to his Nottingham College project.
