PLANS for two blocks of accommodation near Bournemouth University’s Lansdowne site would be “cheap but not that adequate”, it is claimed.

The Broadwey Group, rather than the university, is behind plans to build two blocks – one of eight flats and one of seven – behind Southcote Road.

But Bournemouth Civic Society, which described the homes as “what amounts to 15 student sized live-bed cubicles”, wants the scheme rejected.

Its built environment consultant, John Sloane, wrote: “This is the latest of several attempts in the Holdenhurst/Lansdowne area to offer cheap but not that adequate accommodation to the increasing number of students who will be working at the new Lansdowne campus of Bournemouth University.

“Since proper student accommodation is likely to be provided by hostels fully approved by the university, unsuitable applications purporting to offer the same facilities should be strongly discouraged.“Furthermore the site is totally unsuitable for further development- it being back land and wedged between an already fully developed late nineteenth century urban area and industrial units.”

Bournemouth Borough Council planning officers are set to decide the application under powers delegated to them by councillors.

A university spokesman said: “The homes in question do not have any relation to Bournemouth University.”