Street traders are concerned work to construct a new student block on the site of a Poundland store in Nottingham could have "massive effects" on business. Proposals show a towering new apartment block could be built on top of the discount store in Lower Parliament Street.
After it was revealed an investor had taken over ownership of the building, plans now show developer Maven Property is hoping to create 59 individual bedrooms and 51 studio flats. The developer says the building will be complimented with a rooftop garden featuring solar panels. Nottingham City Council says the existing building is not "desirable and attractive" and therefore the development will be designed in such a way as to make it more visually appealing.
Maven says: "This is an opportunity to increase student accommodation provision in a central location of Nottingham, vacate existing house-shares for families to re-inhabit, replace the blank facades of the existing building with high quality architecture, improve the sustainability credentials, decrease running costs, and invigorate the Clinton Street markets."
