Cambridge uninspiring flats plan no answer to eyesore
An eyesore junction dubbed an “embarrassment” to Cambridge will remain as it is for now after development chiefs described plans for student flats there as “uninspiring”.
Councillors stopped short of rejecting a four-storey building containing 98 bedrooms and a coffee shop on the corner of Huntingdon Road and Histon Road yesterday but, after indicating they were minded to vote for refusal, agreed to defer a decision to allow for further refinement.
A previous scheme was thrown out by the city council’s planning committee after being branded “mediocre” and an appeal was dismissed …