A wide-range of projects were applied for and given the go-ahead last week in Nottingham. There were a variety of plans submitted to Nottingham City Council that made progress in the week ending August 19.
The two most significant were trees in a school being classed as a 'risk to public safety' and full plans for a new public street food hall at a large student block. Elsewhere, plans to a new hotel on wasteland were given the go-ahead.
And, at two other sites, planning permission was given for student rooms to replace a church and a plan for the area around a historic Mapperley was scrapped.
Read more: Apartments plan scrapped for historic Majestic Cinema site in Mapperley
Trees deemed 'risk to public' near school and tram
An application was received by Nottingham City Council on August 15 to remove two trees that pose a "risk to public safety" at Nottingham High School on Waverley Mount. The proposal was put in for two lime trees to be fully removed due to extensive decay.
The trees are inside school grounds and are also close to tram lines. The application is currently pending consideration by Nottingham City Council.
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Food hall revealed as part of huge planned building complex
Plans were registered by the council on August 17 for a huge city redevelopment project that would create a public market hall to host the "best of the Nottingham street-food scene". The former Nottingham fire and police station on Shakespeare Street would be replaced with a huge student complex that would contain 987 beds, if new plans are approved.
The two planned buildings would vary in height from seven to 12-storeys, with the existing buildings being demolished apart from the Grade II listed Fire Station House. Inside the building there would be a residents’ hub and communal facilities, and a new ground floor public food hall.
Whilst the market hall would be open to students, the site's developer VITA have expressed their wish for it to become a "great asset to Nottingham, assembling the very best of the Nottingham street-food scene into a single, vibrant space." There would also be an adjoining market hall garden which would feature a steel structure decorated with climbing plants over a large outside dining area.
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Wasteland to be transformed by hotel and bar
A new hotel and bar will be built on waste land next to a busy Nottingham road. The greenlight has been given for a 26-bed hotel with a restaurant, bar and car parking on Mansfield Road in Carrington, with Nottingham City Council granting planning permission on August 18.
The site is a currently vacant plot on the east side of Mansfield Road in the Mapperley Park and Alexandra Park Conservation Area. The site was once occupied by a hotel formed from a two-storey Victorian villa but this was demolished in 2005.
The new building will be three storeys with accommodation in the roof in the form of dormers. The ground floor will include a lounge, bar, kitchen, office and two bedrooms, with the remaining bedrooms on the upper floors.
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'Students above God', as church closes for flats plan
A church in the city centre will be converted into 26 studio flats for students after the council gave permission on August 15. This comes after locals said the proposed conversion of the church would put 'students over God'.
The first and second floors of 11 to 13 Thurland Street was until recently occupied by Nottingham's branch of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). The UCKG, a Brazilian Christian denomination church formed in 1977, came to the UK in 1995.
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Apartments plan around listed cinema scrapped
Plans for new apartments to be built on the site of a historic cinema have been withdrawn. The site of the Majestic Cinema on Woodborough Road, Mapperley was subject to a plan for a three-block seven-apartment complex to surround the Grade II listed building.
The proposed plans had stressed the cinema would remain, but the planning application has now been withdrawn by applicant RAAM Properties Ltd. The proposal withdrawn on August 16 followed initial plans by developers to demolish the building entirely and replace it with 26 apartments in 2019, prompting a campaign by local residents which resulted in Nottingham City Council listing it as a Building of Historic Interest and it being Grade II listed in 2020.
The Majestic Cinema opened on June 10, 1929 and was designed by Alfred John Thraves, who was based in Nottingham and was one of the country’s most prolific cinema architects, with nearly 30 projects to his name built between 1924 and 1939. Originally owned by the Severn family, the Majestic Cinema closed its doors in 1957.
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