Keyworker flats blueprint for Leeds college site is slammed by planning chiefs
Leeds council planning chiefs have sent the developers of a major £40m scheme back to the drawing board – branding their blueprint for keyworker homes unfit for 21st century living.
Plans for the former St Michael’s College building and old police garages in Woodhouse were presented to the City Plans Panel and while there was broad support for the principle of the scheme, which would see the original 1908 college building preserved as part of a mixed scheme for apartments and student flats, there was strongly expressed concern about the “too small” size of the ‘keyworker’ apartments.
Describing a picture of one of the flats, Coun Rachel Procter said: “It’s almost like a rabbit warren. It’s not right and it’s not viable. The students will have better accommodation than the keyworkers.” …