Plans to tear down a Nottingham pub to make way for more student flats have been scrapped. A scheme was proposed in September to demolish The Foresters Inn on Huntingdon Street, behind the Victoria Centre, in order to replace it with a six-and-a-half storey building hosting 22 student apartments and a shop on the ground floor.
But now Nottingham City Council has confirmed that on December 8 the plan was withdrawn by the applicant Notts City Living Ltd. Currently the ground floor pub is vacant after being closed down due to lack of business and the upper floors are currently let out as serviced apartments.
The housing above the pub suffers from cold and damp and is not cost-effective due to poor energy performance, according to planning documents. The developers behind the project previously said the building would not be suitable for conversion.
