Church could provide flats for students – Sheffield
A derelict Victorian church which has attracted squatters and illegal ravers is set to be transformed into student accommodation, if plans are agreed by Sheffield Council next week.
Objections to the scheme, which would create 98 student beds within the Grade II-listed Crookes Valley Methodist Church, have come from neighbours, former council leader Paul Scriven and the local Green Party.
Planning permission was granted in 2006 to convert the run-down church in Crookesmoor Road into 18 flats with 89 beds, and three years later a second set of plans were approved which would have seen a development of student flats with 63 beds …