| Comment | Scotway House wasn't burned down for student flats.
That particular building sits on a bit of land that Tesco bought over and were going to build a new Tesco superstore along with some housing. Their plans got scuppered because they wanted to demolish Scotway House and got told no fucking way. Few weeks later the thing went up in flames. Tesco put in another application, rejected again. They then sold the land. So, no, it doesn't fit the 'student flats fires' theories, but the whole thing was 100% a corporation taking the absolute piss and burned a historic building down to try and force their plans through.
Student flats do stand on Elgin place (Corner of Bath and Pitt) - which weirdly is something I linked a photo of about an hour ago in another thread - Old gothic / neo greek building that burned down. It was years before it ended up student flats though. |
|---|