Student flats plan is cut down in size – Bradford
The architects behind a controversial multi-storey student building near Bradford’s iconic Alhambra Theatre have agreed to alter their plans to protect the city’s skyline.
An application for a 16-storey building on the site of the empty Castaways nightclub was first submitted in November, and has attracted a number of objections, including from English Heritage.
Although it did not object to the idea of student flats on the site, the organisation called for the application to be thrown out, saying the building would be an “obtrusive and jarring” element in the skyline of that area of the city, which includes both the Odeon and the century-old Alhambra Theatre and is a conservation area …