The tower was left standing when the offices were demolished.
Plans to convert the former Yorkshire Evening Post site into more than 2,000 flats have been approved.The site was home to the YEP and its sister title, the Yorkshire Post, from 1970 to 2012.
City councillors gave outline planning permission at a meeting on Thursday, further details of the scheme will return to the council at a later date., the old tower bearing the mastheads of both newspapers will be taken down, but it is hoped the emblems will be restored and erected somewhere on the site.It is hoped the newspaper's emblems can be preserved and reused on the site
Councillor Asghar Khan said the logos were "iconic" and a "welcome home" beacon for people driving back into the city.James Beynon, for developer Urbanite, said they recognised the "iconic nature" of the clock tower but the structure would have to come down for "wind mitigation purposes".Mr Beynon said options included reusing parts of the masthead, such as the lettering, or creating a new carbon copy of it.
Most will be purpose-built student accommodation, though the 25-storey building will feature 348 one, two and three-bed residential apartments., built on the other side of the city centre in 2005. Planning officers, however, insisted they were confident there would be no such issues with this development.
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