Residents’ anger as student flats scheme is approved – Kingston
Norbiton residents were left furious after plans to build a five and six storey student accommodation block on the Cambridge Road estate were voted through.
Members of Kingston Council’s development control committee approved an application for a 272-room block of flats with roof terrace and retail unit on the former Duke of York pub and the current site of Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Applicants AK II Property Investment’s proposal succeeded two months after the committee rejected a different plan for a six and seven storey, 300-room block on the same site …