Plans for a luxury student apartment block in Newcastle city centre boasting a rooftop 'sky lounge' and a cinema are facing rejection.
Nixon Homes proposals for a massive new tower block in St James' Boulevard , which would accommodate more than 300 students, were revealed last year and promised spectacular views across the city.
However, councillors now look set to put a stop to the scheme over fears that it would be "overbearing" and not provide some of its tenants with enough daylight.
Nixon is hoping to build a 12-storey block that would house 344 students - smaller than the original 14-storey building it had first proposed last summer.
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The developer had also previously had plans for a smaller, 246-bed block on the site approved in 2017, before "market and viability issues" led them to shelve those designs in favour of a bigger building.
The decision on whether to grant permission for the revamped project will be made by Newcastle City Council's planning committee next Friday.
Last week, the planning committee rejected another plan for a neighbouring tower block in Heber Street due concerns over the lack of daylight for its residents and the potential impact on this student development.
Local authority planning officers have recommended that the committee refuses Nixon Homes' application for St James' Boulevard site , which is currently occupied by Norland Electrical.
They say that the block would "appear overbearing within its context and would detrimentally impact on the amenity of residents and the potential for neighbouring sites to deliver an acceptable and viable scheme".
Their report adds: "In terms of residential amenity, whilst the daylight and sunlight results suggest satisfactory amenity to the majority of residents of the scheme, concerns remain over the amenity provided by rooms to the rear particularly in terms of daylight, sunlight and outlook as noted in the report.
"Amendments are required to these rooms to ensure a suitable standard of amenity for all future residents.
"In addition, the additional height combined with full site coverage would detrimentally impact on the amenity of neighbouring sites within the Science Central key site and the potential for neighbouring sites to deliver an acceptable scheme."
In its planning application, the developer had promised a "spectacular building, that offers its students a high quality holistic living experience, that will improve their well-being, education and social interaction - serving them well for the future".
They added: "The rooftop of the proposed scheme provides spectacular potential for high quality, regulated amenity space for individual or communal use, to provide occupying students with a sky-is-the-limit facility, enhancing the living experience and improving learning potential, health and wellbeing."
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