Proposed Bradford Student flats ‘will improve Odeon area’
A developer says plans for block of flats for 263 students would “improve the quality of the urban environment” in Bradford’s city centre, despite fears it could harm the skyline.
Plans have been submitted by Castlebrook Properties for a building for apartments spread out over 16 floors on the site of an empty Castaways nightclub behind the Odeon on Great Horton Road – which would contain student flats and three ground floor shops and cafes.
But the building’s location, behind the Odeon building and Alambra Theatre, has raised concerns.The Bradford Odeon Rescue Group, dedicated to saving the former Odeon building, has described plans to build a high rise block of flats behind the building as a “considerable concern.” …