Plans to replace an Art Deco former police and fire HQ in Nottingham with a Glenn Howells Architects-designed student development have hit a stumbling block after Historic England listed the current building at grade II.

Nottingham City Council planning officers had recommended GHA’s part-8, part-9 and part-13-storey proposals for student-housing provider Vita Group for approval at a meeting of the authority’s planning committee last week. However the application was pulled from the agenda after the listing was confirmed.

Planning officers’ backing came despite concerns over the scheme’s impact on the neighbouring grade II-listed Guildhall and on grade II-listed caves that are underneath the site.

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