Student flat scheme boost for Newcastle building firm
Newcastle developer Metnor Property Group is ready to push ahead with the construction of a 396-bed student accommodation block for Northumbria University, which it said will protect around 100 jobs in its North East supply chain.
The 133,000sq ft block, which will be built on the site of the existing Winn Products and George Rye industrial and warehouse buildings on Stoddart Street, will be between five and eight storeys tall – standing well above the two-storey roofline of the existing buildings on the site, and substantially bigger than the Biscuit Factory art gallery opposite …