Details revealed on new 20m student flats and retail development for Coventry city centre

The Coventry Telegraph can reveal more details on plans for a new 20million student accommodation and retail development in Coventry.

The new building - which will include around 300 student bedrooms, retail space and restaurants - looks set to be built at the entrance to Far Gosford Street.

Complex Development Projects (CDP), working in partnership with Coventry City Council, have signed up student housing provider Unite Group for the major scheme.

If given planning approval, work is set to start later this year - with the new accommodation expected to open in time for the 2017/2018 academic year.

The project will be the largest investment to date for the Far Gosford Street Partnership, which has been working on the regeneration of the area for almost ten years, and will be the final project in the street.

Ian Harrabin, managing director of CDP, said: The development of site one will fill in the huge gap left by the construction of Sky Blue Way and reconnects the street with the university and city centre.

It has always been part of the masterplan to have a major development on this gateway site which will encourage people to walk up the street and boost trade.

We had originally hoped to secure a hotel, but despite marketing to operators for a number of years, we hadnt managed to secure any interest.

The bones of the current proposal with Unite were agreed when we were out at MIPIM (a property trade show in France) last year and we have been working on the detail with them for the past nine months.

What has resulted is a great scheme of four joined buildings which make the transition between the large buildings of the university and the small scale of the historic street.

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Details revealed on new 20m student flats and retail development for Coventry city centre