Plans for 400 student homes next to Sheffield campus
Plans for a complex of flats for students on the doorstep of the University of Sheffield have been revised so it can now accommodate almost 400.
Already council approval has been granted for shared apartments and studios to be built between Broad Lane and Garden Street on the edge of the city centre that would have a total of 287 bedrooms.
Now the developers are asking for permission for another 110 by reallocating floors initially intended for teaching space. The scale of the buildings, up to nine storeys facing Broad Lane, remains the same …