A DEVELOPER planning to build 240 new homes on a prime site in York wants to hear from the public.

Tuesday, 29 April 2025 17:19

By Haydn Lewis

As The Press reported last month, the 2.2 acre site, close to York Barbican and next to the StayCity aparthotel is across the road from the Bar Walls and has been disused since the former Barbican swimming pool and its car park shut in 2004.

York housebuilder Persimmon has now launched a new consultation website on the plans submitted to York Council to build 240 apartments.

Persimmon say 240 apartments will be built on the site with 53 to be transferred to a registered housing provider.

The consultation is asking members of the public for their views on the updated plans for both the larger site of former swimming pool and a small plot of land on the corner of Fawcett Street and Kent Street.

The main area to the east of the Barbican and Staycity Aparthotel measures approximately 2.14 acres while the smaller plot which fronts onto Fawcett Street to the south west of the Barbican Centre is approximately 0.12 acres.

The buildings on the larger site will be no higher than the existing StayCity aparthotel.

On the smaller site there are plans to build 12 apartments with a space on the ground floor for community use – the operator and exact use of this space will be shaped by the consultation.

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