University student flats turned down in Hatfield

The bedrooms, housed in five colourful blocks, each five storeys high, would have had just tweleve parking spaces – 10 for disabled students and two for visitors.

More than 150 residents packed into a planning committee meeting to see Welwyn Hatfield councillors unanimously reject the idea for 106a to 120 College Lane, Hatfield, for a second time.

As well as the lack of car parking, the site is at very high risk of collapsing due to chalk mines, would mean the redirecting of an historic footpath and was met with more than 180 letters of objection …

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