Brunswick House in Southampton to to converted to student flats
Developers have revealed plans to overhaul the 12-storey 1970s city centre tower into 156 studio apartments after failing to attract firms to take it on.
The owners of Brunswick House will put their proposals on show next week to gain public feedback, but hope to lodge a planning application by the end of the month.
If successful, they hope to have transformed the Brunswick Place building, which overlooks East Park, in time for the start of the academic year in September 2014. As well as creating new en suite flats within the re-clad and modernised tower, owners Praxis say they would also create up to six revitalised shops at street level …