Huddersfield Furniture store converts to Student Flats
Work has begun on the refurbishment of one of the town’s best-known buildings.
Threadworks, previously known as Thatcher’s soft furnishings, is the first property to be turned into student accommodation under the council’s Bringing Clusters Of Empty Homes Into Use scheme.
Funding of £2.8m was secured by the council last year as part of a scheme to revitalise Huddersfield and Dewsbury town centres and meet wider economic needs in the district.The Thatcher’s building is in a prominent location in the town centre and has been vacant since the end of 2011 …