Flats plan is still on for church site in Plymouth
A long-delayed plan to build student flats where a famous Plymouth church once stood remains a reality, according to the company behind the scheme.
Fed-up residents in Lipson are demanding action over the rubbish-strewn site, where St Augustine’s Church stood for more than a century.
The huge and imposing church was torn down in 2001, and the land sold to a property developer by the Exeter Diocese …
But over six years after Pemberley Developments first submitted plans for a six-storey student tower, locals say the prominent plot in Alexandra Road remains a vacant, overgrown magnet for fly-tippers, late-night drinking and other anti-social behaviour …