Former Chester MP attacks plans for student flats

Builders need to reshape their thinking and concentrate on the needs of ‘downsizers’ and not students.

That is the view of former Chester MP Christine Russell in response to plans to build more than 400 student flats near Telfords Warehouse in Chester.

An audience of about 100 people turned up at Garden Lane Methodist Church to record their opposition to a Miller Developments application which has been lodged with Cheshire West and Chester Council (CWaC) …