Southampton’s planned luxury Swaythling gateway tower may become student accomodation
A landmark tower dubbed the “Gateway” to Southampton is to become student flats after being hit by the banking crisis.
Developers now want to fill the proposed 13-storey building in Swaythling with 376 student rooms instead of the 81 apartments previously planned.
Southampton City Council had claimed the development on Parkville Road site on the junction of Stoneham Way and Thomas Lewis Way, would “transform the area” …