380 student flats planned for Aspley

Apr 17 2009 By Barry Gibson

HUNDREDS of student homes will be built next to a busy road.

Planners yesterday approved the development on the car park on the corner of King’s Mill Lane and Wakefield Road in Aspley.

The Watkin Jones Group will build five blocks ranging from two to five storeys which will house 380 students.

Kirklees Council’s Huddersfield Planning Sub-committee approved the plan at a meeting at Huddersfield Town Hall.

However, some councillors are concerned that there will be only 40 parking spaces on the old Riverside Studios site.

Clr Tony Brice voted against the plan. The Lindley Conservative said: “The car parking provision really concerns me. Why do we assume that students don’t have cars? Ninety-nine per cent of them have cars.

“I think there should be more parking, even if one of the blocks has to go to make room for it.”

But Clr Molly Walton disagreed.