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Plans to convert historic Bath cinema into 92 student flats thrown out Adding another nearly 100 students into this small space is going to make a bad situation worse
17:34, 6 MAY 2021
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The Co-Op Scala building on Shaftesbury Road, Oldfield Park, Bath (Image: Artur Lesniak)
Plans to downsize an Oldfield Park supermarket and build 92 student flats that would “add nothing to the area” have been thrown out.
Councillor June Player said the Scala scheme, which also included 16 residential flats and a dance studio, was a “microcosm” of local issues where in some streets students outnumber residents by 13 to one.
But planning committee members were told curbs on the concentration of homes in multiple occupation did not apply to purpose-built student accommodation.
New riverside apartments in Bath set to be finished by autumn
The properties will overlook Pulteney Bridge once finished
Eveleigh House is being converted into apartments and new offices (Image: Rengen and Longacre)
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