
Planning Inspectorate Gives Significant Weight to Applicant’s Engagement with the Design Review Pane
The Design Review Panel are delighted to see that the Planning Inspectorate has given significant weight to feedback given by a design review panel for a student accommodation proposal in Guilford.
Stone Grove Stoke Park Limited and their agents Montagu Evans have secured planning permission at a planning appeal for the demolition of existing buildings and their redevelopment to provide purpose-built 553 bed student accommodation. (Appeal Ref: APP/Y3615/W/18/3195333).
The applicant and design team engaged with the design review panel process, on a number of occasions, as part of the Guildford Borough Council pre-application planning process; it is extremely positive to see that Guilford Borough Council encourage engagement with the design review panel process alongside their own pre-application process in recognition that design review panels can provide multidisciplinary, expert, independent and impartial guidance and feedback to the local authority, applicant and design team.
As above, the planning application was for the demolition of existing buildings and redevelopment to provide purpose-built student accommodation with 553 bed-spaces, 149sqm D1 floorspace, 969sqm of student amenity space including a gym and student hub and associated works. The application site was Land at Guildford College Stoke Park Campus, Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1 1EZ.
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