New student accommodation blocks labelled “unimaginative” and "boring" WILL be built A block containing 353 student studios on Frederick Road and Cheltenham Street, as well as 148 student flats north of Broughton Road East and east of Seaford Road, were given the thumbs up by Salford Council's Planning and Transportation Regulatory Panel.
But the Frederick Road site was met with condemnation and compared to a prison by one councillor. Coun Bob Clarke said it looked like it belonged 'on Rikers Island' - where New York's main jail complex is housed.
He said: “It is not good is it. Yet another blot on the landscape. There is just no attempt to make it look nice.
