UK: Manchester City Council has refused permission for a PBSA block on Boundary Lane in Hulme for the fourth time.
Councillors were unconvinced by revised plans from developer Curlew Capital to cut the number of rooms at the scheme from 261 to 146 at a planning committee meeting last week.
The application was turned down on the grounds that the seven-to-nine storey building, designed by SimpsonHaugh, would result in an “imbalance of student numbers in a traditional residential area”.
This is despite the council’s planning officers recommending the revised application for approval ahead of the meeting, describing it as “wholly consistent” with planning policies for the site.
A local campaign group called Block the Block had argued the scheme was excessive in height and scale and would cause loss of daylight to surrounding properties.
The plans had previously been refused in May 2022, October 2022 and July 2023.
