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Search the Public Notice PortalA disused former college building that has lain vacant for a decade has been approved for conversion into 24 residential apartments.
Mid Sussex District Council granted RH19 Estates Ltd permission for the scheme at Queensmere House in Queens Road, East Grinstead, on November 4.
The "deteriorating" building was originally occupied by Central Sussex College, which closed in 2016.
The three-storey premises has remained vacant ever since.
The plans for the former college site include filling in undercroft areas to create homes, as well as landscaping, a new ramp and 15 car parking spaces.
The approved apartments will be a mixture of one to three bedrooms in size.
There will also be 24 secure cycle spaces, while five lower-ground-floor flats will have private gardens.
Central Sussex College closed as an institution in 2017 after falling into financial difficulties.
The college accumulated £25 million of debt after taking out mortgages worth £30 million between 2008 and 2011,
It later borrowed money from the government in 2013, but was forced to close its East Grinstead and Haywards Heath campuses in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
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The establishment subsequently merged with Chichester College Group, with its Crawley campus renamed Crawley College.
Queensmere House was sold for residential development in 2022.
The approved development comes with conditions, inclusing a stipulation that the developer pays contributions towards measures to mitigate its impact on Ashdown Forest before work begins.
Work on the development must commence within three years.
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