Regent’s Canal footbridge scheme may lead to new student flats in Somers Town

A NEW footbridge over the Regent’s Canal could be built as part of a deal that will see hundreds of new rooms for students on the site of a builders yard in Somers Town.

The scheme, due to go before the Town Hall’s planning committee this evening (Thursday), in­cludes a promise by developers Unite to pay £230,000 to build the new footbridge, which would lead from St Pancras Way towards the former King’s Cross Railway Lands – where the new University of Arts is set to open in September. 

The Travis Perkins building in St Pancras Way would be redeveloped with a new warehouse on the ground floor for the building materials company, and 564 student rooms built above. 

All three Somers Town ward Labour councillors  support the scheme but the Regent’s Canal Conservation Area Advisory Committee have objected. Town Hall planning officers have recommended the scheme be given the go ahead. 

Published: 21st July, 2011
by DAN CARRIER