Local resident pressure brings rethink over insensitive name for Durham student flats
A developer has decided to think again after the name of its new student accommodation scheme proved controversial with residents.
Universal Student Living planned to call its new block of purpose-built student accommodation in Durham “The Clink” – an historical reference to the time when the area was used as Durham County Penitentiary.
The development is on the site of Kepier House, off Gilesgate, used in the 19th Century as a home for “fallen women,” an institution which was entered voluntarily but had prison-like features …