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Student flat plans thrown out again
DEVELOPERS who wanted to add a block of student flats on to a 19th century listed building in Sheffield have been knocked back once more.
Adam Khan Architects applied last year to redevelop the 19th-century Vestry Hall, on the corner of Crookesmoor Road and Roebuck Road, Crookesmoor, and add a new extension to the adjoining Coach House with flats housing 29 students.
Sheffield councillors rejected the plans at a meeting last May, saying the proposed development would "detract from the special architectural and historic interest" of the hall and also constitute an overdevelopment of the site.
Councillors also said the flats would have created noise, disturbance and congestion on nearby roads.
The developer then appealed to Communities Secretary John Denham in an attempt to have the decision overturned but the appeal has now been refused.
Mr Denham's department said: "He concluded that the internal alterations to the hall were unacceptable, resulting in too much subdivision and disruption of the original form of the building, and that new additions such as windows and roof lights would be visually harmful."
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