Architects sent back to the drawing board as flats plan cut down to size

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Architects sent back to the drawing board as flats plan cut down to size

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2007 / June 9

Plans to transform a notorious Old Town gap site into a block of student flats have been rejected after council chiefs ruled the proposed complex was too big. The city's planning committee had been expected to give the green light to the seven-storey accommodation on vacant land in Blackfriars Street, but the proposals were thrown out after councillors demanded the project's architects scale down the height of the building, arguing that it would dwarf an adjoining tenement block. But the city's planning leader Jim Lowrie said he was "keen to see it granted" once at least one storey had been shaved off the blueprints. The site, near the Radisson Hotel, currently serves as the main access route to a multi-storey car park. It has been vacant since the late 1980s, although various schemes to transform it into flats and an hotel extension have been attempted over the years.

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