Student flats plan for former Reg Vardy garage site in Lawrence Street – York

Revised plans to turn a former car showroom in York into hundreds of student flats could be approved this week.

Black Lion Ltd wants to build three buildings containing 220 flats on the Lawrence Street site where the Reg Vardy garage once operated.

The site had become a regular target for vandals and squatters in recent years and City of York planners have recommended the plans be approved, a year after the authority backed the developers’ original scheme …

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