Proposals to create more than 200 "co-living" apartments in the Baltic Triangle area of Liverpool were unanimously rejected.
An application to build an accommodation block on the site of the former Bogans Carpets unit in New Bird Street was knocked back by members of Liverpool City Council’s planning committee.
Councillors raised concerns about the affordability of the proposed housing scheme, the lack of policy around developments of its type and the construction representing a “student development by stealth.”
