Enough is enough, say critics of new student flats plan – Leicester
More than 400 people have objected to plans to demolish a Victorian factory to make way for a complex of student flats.
Jamie Lewis Residential is seeking permission from Leicester City Council to knock down the CPH Thurmaston building, in Upperton Road in Leicester’s West End, to build 731 student rooms in buildings up to eight storeys high.
The Victorian factory used to be Great Central Railway’s wagon repair works …