Plans for 49 new student bedrooms in Loughborough
49 new student bedrooms could be added to an off-campus accommodation block under new plans.
Harrington Investments Ltd is seeking permission from Charnwood Borough Council to demolish garages, an office common room and a bike store at Forest Court and build extensions to the buildings to form the new bedrooms.
According to documents submitted with the application, Forest Court was built in the 1960s, and refurbished after an historic management deal between Loughborough University and Derwent Living in 1999.
The site was subsequently transferred to Harrington Investments Ltd in June 2014, on a Peppercorn Lease. The application’s Planning Statement says: “The villas and houses that line Forest Road between the site and the town centre were once wholly residential, however as the town centre has expanded over the years, people have moved to quieter areas and businesses now occupy many of these buildings …