'It belongs in a prison camp': 'Awful' student block WILL be built after council green light
manchestereveningnews.co.ukNew student accommodation blocks labelled “unimaginative” and "boring" WILL be built A block containing 353 student studios on Frederick Road and Cheltenham Street, as well as 148 student flats north of Broughton Road East and east of Seaford Road, were given the thumbs up by Salford Council's Planning and Transportation Regulatory Panel.
But the Frederick Road site was met with condemnation and compared to a prison by one councillor. Coun Bob Clarke said it looked like it belonged 'on Rikers Island' - where New York's main jail complex is housed.
He said: “It is not good is it. Yet another blot on the landscape. There is just no attempt to make it look nice. “One elevation looks like it belongs on Rikers Island with the narrow windows.
We have got to have a better street scene than this. READ MORE: New hydrogen power plant could be built on the Salford and Trafford border “We are closing the sky off to people and all we can see is concrete and glass monstrosities and it drains the life out of me.
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