Corstorphine & Wright has been given the go-ahead for a 28-storey student tower in Manchester after a planning inspector overruled the city council’s grounds for rejecting the 500-plus-bedroom scheme.

The practice’s £40m plans for Deansgate South were drawn up for developer Fusion Students and included a gym, cinema, karaoke room and study spaces on a 0.6ha site near Simpson Haugh & Partners’ Deansgate Square towers.

Manchester city council’s planning and highways committee turned down the application in June last year. Members cited concerns including the impact of the proposals on the surrounding area and particular heritage assets; the need for the proposed development; and the impact on residents of nearby Deansgate Quay.

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