Plans for Sainsbury’s and student flats at Mitcham’s Corner in Cambridge set to be rejected
Plans for a Sainsbury’s and accommodation for 260 students are set to fail their examination.
Dozens of residents have opposed the plans for Mitcham’s Corner in Cambridge and councillors have now been recommended to refuse the scheme, amid fears the scale of the design would “swamp” the Portland Arms pub.
The application would see the Alexander House offices and the Furniture Direct store, either side of the pub, replaced with six blocks arranged around a central courtyard and stretching back to Corona Road to extend the existing four-storey terrace there …