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Six-storey car park and student flats plan set for approval (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Six-storey car park and student flats plan set for approval
5:00pm Tuesday 14th August 2012 in News By Melanie Vass
PLAN: An artist’s impression of early ideas from the Bournemouth Development Company for student housing in Madeira Road
PROPOSALS to redevelop a council car park with almost 400 student accommodation units and a 400-space multi-storey car park are set to be given the green light.
The Bournemouth Development Company, which is leading a massive regeneration of the town centre, is seeking permission to build a six-storey car park and three student accommodation buildings on the Madeira Road West car park site.
And the proposals are being recommended for approval, with senior planning officer Charles Raven stating: “This is a significant development on an underutilised site within Bournemouth Town Centre.
“The proposal would bring additional vibrancy and life, whilst providing an economic boost to local traders, without compromising the availability of public car parking.”
The student accommodation will be used by the Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB), who currently have just 100 bed spaces on offer in halls of residence.
It’s hoped that providing 378 student bedrooms will help reduce the problems caused by students moving into family homes in Winton and surrounding areas.
The car park will be built at the eastern end of the site and will be owned and operated by Bournemouth council. It will offset parking lost when the construction of homes and cafe space gets underway at nearby Leyton Mount.
The site is the second to be brought forward by the Bournemouth Development Company, which is a partnership between Bournemouth council and Morgan Sindall Investments Ltd.
The council invests its assets, mainly car parks, into the scheme, while Morgan Sindall provides the funds.
The council will use a share of the profits from this development to reinvest into the town, with Westover Road among the areas prioritised for improvement.
The proposals will go before the council’s planning board on Monday, August 20.
Comments(21)
Clunge
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5:39pm Tue 14 Aug 12
pugs0404
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5:46pm Tue 14 Aug 12
Clunge
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6:00pm Tue 14 Aug 12
pugs0404 wrote:Castlepoint.
where are all the shoppers going to park
Bob49
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6:30pm Tue 14 Aug 12
Think it isn't going to happen to Bath Road carpark .... think again.
Old Harry
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7:01pm Tue 14 Aug 12
addntox
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7:06pm Tue 14 Aug 12
to be replaced by even more flats
with even more students
blimey that town centre plan they had is amazing!
SophieRJ
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8:51pm Tue 14 Aug 12
spooki
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9:21pm Tue 14 Aug 12
Bournefre
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10:01pm Tue 14 Aug 12
Surely Bournemouth is 'crying out' for more family homes and fewer flats/bedsits; or would that just be the readers of the Echo?
beachcomber1
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11:29pm Tue 14 Aug 12
SophieRJ wrote:quite. there really are some fick posters on here, posting their knee jerk garbage without actually reading the article properly.
I dont think it increases the number of students in Bournemouth...
BBC Escapee
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12:31am Wed 15 Aug 12
Bob49 wrote:Spot on!
Bournemouth council handing over YET ANOTHER carpark to developers so they can squeeze in more flats
Think it isn't going to happen to Bath Road carpark .... think again.
Hands up anybody who believes that dear old Bournemouth Council has bought the IMAX site because it spoils the view.
Join the dots up and lets just wait for the announcement that they can't afford to develop the site long term so completely out of the blue somebody will have the idea that it should be parcelled up with Bath Road Car Park for a not to be missed development opportunity for the good of Bournemouth. (Keep your eye on the Royal Bath Hotel as well)
Anybody fancy an all expenses paid fact finding mission to try and find any man-made surf reefs that actually work!
Phixer
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4:20am Wed 15 Aug 12
Gastines2 wrote:No. Bring back the Poll Tax.
Any Council Tax coming in from the flats?
tricky1007
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7:29am Wed 15 Aug 12
beachcomber1 wrote:No, but it does increase the number of students now just a walk away from the bars offering silly priced drinks. Great for the residents of Winton to get rid of the nuisance neighbors, but another nail in the coffin of Bournemouth having an economy that is anything but students. people with any spare bit of cash will avoid Bournemouth at all costs, as mixing with so many drunk people is not fun for most!
SophieRJ wrote:quite. there really are some fick posters on here, posting their knee jerk garbage without actually reading the article properly.
I dont think it increases the number of students in Bournemouth...
Clunge
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11:30am Wed 15 Aug 12
Bob49
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2:12pm Wed 15 Aug 12
The council has already stated that the whole Bath Road carpark/Imax site will be 'comprehensively redeveloped' and that anything put there will be temporary pending an upturn in developments.
Even when it is spelt out to them we still get the witless warbling of what all weather facilities could be built there.
The council must think it is like shooting fish in a barrel as the plunder the towns resources.
turborock
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10:29am Thu 16 Aug 12
pugs0404 wrote:in the six story car park?
where are all the shoppers going to park
Earl
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10:42am Thu 16 Aug 12
talago
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10:55am Thu 16 Aug 12
this will only be made worse by the council agreeing to turn the local are into a university complex
Cookie75
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11:52am Thu 16 Aug 12
Clunge wrote:How about everybody in the world disappear so that YOU can have everything your own way....in your perfect (moany) paradise.
£1000 a term multiplied by 400 for whatever organisation or housing association owns it, very nice return for some cheaply knocked up set of boxes. There are already four huge blocks in the Oxford Rd, Lansdowne Road and Christchurch Road areas with another complex opposite the train station being built. So how many students does that total? 3000 within a few hundred metres of the lower market bars. Add all the language students and the midweek foreign student club nights, add the "locals" from who come into Bournemouth to drink and socialise, then add the weekend stag and hen trade, add the homeless who invade the town like a plague of rats for begging opportunities, add some of the shady clubs run by crime gangs, where cocaine is sold to the good looking Towie wannabes and add a dash of the well documented violent crime figures. It adds up to an economy pretty much built on the concept of getting drunk, seven days a week, open all hours.
YOU can choose not to go into Bournemouth if you do not want to....but just because YOU don't like something, why does everyone else have to pander to YOUR whims and desires.
Sod off and stay in your moany negative world.....the rest of us don't want to hear it!
power_ranger
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7:01pm Thu 16 Aug 12
Cookie75 wrote:Well said.
Clunge wrote:How about everybody in the world disappear so that YOU can have everything your own way....in your perfect (moany) paradise.
£1000 a term multiplied by 400 for whatever organisation or housing association owns it, very nice return for some cheaply knocked up set of boxes. There are already four huge blocks in the Oxford Rd, Lansdowne Road and Christchurch Road areas with another complex opposite the train station being built. So how many students does that total? 3000 within a few hundred metres of the lower market bars. Add all the language students and the midweek foreign student club nights, add the "locals" from who come into Bournemouth to drink and socialise, then add the weekend stag and hen trade, add the homeless who invade the town like a plague of rats for begging opportunities, add some of the shady clubs run by crime gangs, where cocaine is sold to the good looking Towie wannabes and add a dash of the well documented violent crime figures. It adds up to an economy pretty much built on the concept of getting drunk, seven days a week, open all hours.
YOU can choose not to go into Bournemouth if you do not want to....but just because YOU don't like something, why does everyone else have to pander to YOUR whims and desires.
Sod off and stay in your moany negative world.....the rest of us don't want to hear it!
Far too many moany people still living in the 20th century who think Bournemouth is still some sort of retirement town.
University students work very hard, and only the best of the best get to uni in the first place. Who cares if they want to have fun as and when their study allows?
Most have gone from GCSE's to A levels to their undergrad degrees without any time off, and increasingly have to work all summer and half terms, as well as antisocial hours to fund their studies.
The victor meldrews of this world complain when students are dispersed throughout "family" areas like winton, moan when a property to contain a large number of students in a small area...
PLEASE, MOANERS, EXPLAIN TO US ALL EXACTLY WHERE YOU WOULD USE YOUR ALMIGHTY WORLD-CHANGING POWERS TO HOME STUDENTS?
Gastines2 says...
5:15pm Tue 14 Aug 12