New student accommodation development planned for Winchester
Developers are proposing a major expansion of student housing in Winchester.
Geoffrey Osbourne Ltd is hoping to build a 250-bedroom block on the Wykeham Industrial Estate on Moorside Road, Winnall.
The developers say the scheme will help ease the controversial ‘studentification’ of estates such as Stanmore and Winnall which has seen scores of family homes converted into flats.
Amanda Sutton, director of planning consultants Neame Sutton, said: “[Osbourne] found a real need to build student accommodation. We knew about the council’s initiative to free up affordable housing and this is the answer. I I think if we were in a residential area then we may get some backlash but we are out of the way up on the edge of the city.” …