Student flats plan for former hosiery factory in Leicester
Developers have submitted plans to turn a former hosiery factory into 173 student flats.
The project is proposed for the former Jemsox Factory, in Welford Road, near the De Montfort University campus.
Campbell Property, of Wiltshire, wants to construct the flats in the factory, which dates from about 1880, and two five-storey buildings it would build behind it …