'Clock is ticking' for redevelopment on stricken city street

The "clock is ticking" for the redevelopment of the historic former M&S building in Nottingham after years of little noticable progress. Permission was granted for the old home store in Lister Gate to be turned into new shops and a sizable student accommodation complex in late 2021, fueling hope that the building would not stay empty for long - unlike large parts of the city centre street.

The manager of the Hunter UK Retail Unit Trust, a Guernsey-based scheme mostly invested in by local authority pension funds that owns the building, had previously stated construction would start at the beginning of 2022 and take two years to fully complete at a cost of £16 million. Hunter REIM, which manages the trust, failed to address the lack of process at the old store when repeatedly contacted by Nottinghamshire Live.

Recently the local authority approved plans to redevelop the former Claire’s Accessories, Mountain Warehouse and Holland and Barrett shops at the partially-demolished shopping centre into a Community Diagnostic Centre , which Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust will use to quickly test patients without them having to go to hospital.

Under the plans passed in 2021 the old M&S building, which was originally built for Woolworths in the 1930s and has protected Grade-II status, would be converted into two retail units. The 156 student beds would then be housed in a five and six-storey building behind and above the historic building, which would overcover the existing service yard which leads to Stanford Street.

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New Plans Revealed for Student Apartments on Nottingham City Centre StreetNew plans have been revealed for more student apartments on a Nottingham city centre street where dozens more have already been approved. Two retail units would be created on the ground floor, but the upper three floors above the former EE store on Lister Gate would be transformed into 11 studio apartments. The first and second floors would each house four apartments, whilst the third floor would feature three. Each apartment would come with an en-suite shower room, kitchen area, storage and desk space. It marks the latest plans for student accommodation on Lister Gate, a street which has seen significant change since the closure of the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre. River Island and WHSmith are among the big-name brands that have left, with questions having been raised about the street's future given the number of empty units. What would you like to see happen on the Broadmarsh site? Let us know here One solution has proved to be a planned £25 million Community Diagnostic Centre, which will be run by the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The one-stop shop for services ranging from lung function testing to ultrasound scans will be based in a row of former retail units at the end of Lister Gate. For the other vacant buildings, several developers have been taking them on in recent years and submitting plans to convert them into student accommodation
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