Student digs planned for Durham laundry site
MULTI-million pound plans to build accommodation for hundreds of students on a laundry site have been submitted.
Edinburgh-based County Properties (Northern) Group first announced its intention to build a student village on the Berendsen laundry site, off the A167 at Neville’s Cross, Durham City, last summer. The “eco village” would feature en-suite rooms in cluster flats with a shared kitchen and dining and living areas on the frontage near the A167; larger en-suite studio flats with kitchens, again near the A167; and three- to four-storey townhouses set further back on the site.
There would also be communal areas, 44 car parking spaces and storage for 140 bicycles …