Plans to turn a former NHS mental health unit in York into student accommodation are approved.
The scheme would benefit students from lower income backgrounds who attend the university, officials saidYork St John University submitted plans to build the three-storey blocks of flats for its students at Peppermill Court, off Huntington Road.The flats, which would be available at a discounted rate, would help students from lower income backgrounds who attend the university, they added.
"Our students are the paramedics, nurses, teachers, scientists, lawyers, artists, designers and business professionals of the future - vitally important to society, and in many cases already working in desperately needed key roles," he said. "When it comes to assumptions around privacy, we think we've gone as far as we can go and beyond the buffer distances that were discussed with the council planning team," Mr Coakley said.
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