The four-storey building would be on the site of James Street near Foss Island Road, on the site of the Jax Motorcycles showroom which would be demolished.
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The plans propose a mixture of studio rooms and shared cluster apartments of six bedrooms each spread across three floors.
It would offer hotel-style facilities for students, Study Inn said in its application.
But a report to a planning meeting is recommending that councillors refuse the plan.
That’s despite Study Inn seeking pre-application advice from City of York Council, and revising the proposed development following planning officers’ feedback.
The report says the plans “are considered to be an overdevelopment of the site” with a lack of outdoor amenities.
It also criticises the landscaping: “The scheme represents a highly intensive residential use of the site with very little opportunity for meaningful landscaping or tree planting.” it says.
It would include its own gymAnother visual of the James Street scheme. Image: planning documents
The report goes on: “Overall the absence of meaningful on-site external amenity space for residents; limited opportunities for meaningful planting and soft landscaping to enhance the public realm; and the number of bedrooms with poor outlook fronting land over which the applicant has no control are considered to by symptomatic of the overdevelopment of the site.”
The lack of external shared amenity space and the loss of employment land are given as reasons for refusal.
Councillors will decide the application at a planning committee next Thursday (12 March).
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