£20m Durham student digs plan would create ‘totally unbalanced community’
Residents are gearing up for a County Hall showdown with developers who want to build £20m-worth of student digs on their doorstep.
Families living on Sheraton Park, in Neville’s Cross, Durham City, hope to thwart Alumno Developments’ plans to build privately-run accommodation for nearly 400 students on the former New College Durham site.
They say the scheme is far too big, effectively creating a new university campus in a residential area, and contravenes the Local Plan …