Plans drawn up by aLL Design for a 113-room student accommodation scheme in Cambridge have been knocked back by the council because of excessive scale and because the applicant failed to demonstrate an “identified need”.

The proposed building designed by the late Will Alsop’s former practice would have created accommodation for students of the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts.

In the report recommending the scheme be refused consent, the council’s planning officer detailed an extensive list of reasons the project should not proceed.

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