Opinions have been split by plans to tear down a city pub to build student accommodation. The Foresters Inn on Huntingdon Street, behind the Victoria Centre, could be demolished and replaced with a six-and-a-half storey building hosting 22 student apartments and a shop on the ground floor, if new plans are approved by Nottingham City Council.
Currently the ground floor pub is vacant after being closed down due to lack of business. The upper floors are currently let out as serviced apartments.
Opinions from people in the area were split on the proposal, with some saddened by the loss of another pub. Richard Arnold, 54, from Thorneywood, said: "I think the pubs have been squeezed for years out of business, with less people going to them and being squeezed by breweries. You're seeing less and less of them around.
