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17/02/2016
Planning Approved For City Centre Student Accommodation Development
Planning permission has been granted for a new purpose-built managed student accommodation development in Belfast city centre.
Belfast City Council's Planning Committee granted permission for the redevelopment of part of the former Belfast Metropolitan College building, at the junction of Brunswick Street and Franklin Street, into a 476-bedroom residential building. This site is adjacent to a new hotel for which the Committee granted planning permission in November 2015.
This brings to the number of new student rooms to be approved by the Council in the past two months to around 1,500.
Proposals for two other developments, on York Street and Dublin Road, were deferred for site visits.
Chair of the Planning Committee, Councillor Matt Garrett, said: "There is a clear need for quality, managed student accommodation in the city, as is clearly demonstrated by the number of developments for which we have granted approval, and the number of applications still to come before us.
"However, while the Council is extremely conscious of this need, we are also keenly aware of the impact such developments are likely to have on existing communities and neighbourhoods, and therefore each application which comes before us will be scrutinized in details, with the merits and demerits carefully weighed up and decisions made accordingly."
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Belfast City Council's Planning Committee granted permission for the redevelopment of part of the former Belfast Metropolitan College building, at the junction of Brunswick Street and Franklin Street, into a 476-bedroom residential building. This site is adjacent to a new hotel for which the Committee granted planning permission in November 2015.
This brings to the number of new student rooms to be approved by the Council in the past two months to around 1,500.
Proposals for two other developments, on York Street and Dublin Road, were deferred for site visits.
Chair of the Planning Committee, Councillor Matt Garrett, said: "There is a clear need for quality, managed student accommodation in the city, as is clearly demonstrated by the number of developments for which we have granted approval, and the number of applications still to come before us.
"However, while the Council is extremely conscious of this need, we are also keenly aware of the impact such developments are likely to have on existing communities and neighbourhoods, and therefore each application which comes before us will be scrutinized in details, with the merits and demerits carefully weighed up and decisions made accordingly."
(MH/JP)
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