Best view in Wolverhampton for just £80 a week

This is the best view in the whole of Wolverhampton - all for just over £80 per week.

Student Lucy Jones today told the Express & Star how renting a room on the 21st floor of the Victoria Hall Student Accommodation was like "living on top of the world".

She pays just £324 a month for her penthouse apartment, which offers panoramic views across the Black Country.

Available exclusively to students, the £37 million development in Culwell Street, Wolverhampton, provides luxury accommodation at up to 300ft above the city's streets.

And Lucy, one of the lucky few living on the 21st floor of Block A, says the apartment's position provides constantly changing scenery. "It can change completely depending on what the weather is like. Sometimes you can see for miles around, but in the winter the cloud can come right down and all you can see is grey, which is quite eerie.

"When it snowed heavily earlier this year everything was covered in white and it looked beautiful.

"For me it really is like living on the top of the world."

The 23-year-old University of Wolverhampton nursing student, who previously lived in halls in North Road, said her top-floor apartment also allowed her to keep an eye on what was happening in the city.

Lucy, of Gable Croft, Lichfield, added: "It's great when I get up in the morning because I can check the traffic and chose which route. It's especially useful at the moment with all the roadworks.

"I remember when the KFC on Penn Road caught fire and we could see everything that was happening.

"And when I was doing my placement at New Cross I would come home and watch building work at the hospital and how it was being developed.

"You get to see all the building developments, like the Fusion apartments just across the road."

Other landmarks which Lucy has a bird's eye view of include Cannock Chase, the Molineux and the Express & St­ar headquarters in Queen Street.

And this week she has been watching the demolition making way for the new £22.5m bus station at Pipers Row.

The former Royal Wolverhampton School pupil, whose disabled dad Ashley, aged 50, can visit her in the halls because of the lift system, added: "It's been fantastic living here. I've already been looking at flats to move into when I leave university next year and it's going to cost me an absolute fortune to get somewhere as good."

Facilities include 24-hour staffing, CCTV, satellite TV, en-suite bedrooms, video entry, broadband, and the lounges have fully-equipped kitchens and flatscreen TVs.

Victoria Hall's assistant manager Darren Ashfield, 35, said: "We are happy to be able to provide students with these fantastic views.

"We strive to provide the best student accommodation in Wolverhampton."

A 300ft crane, one of the largest in Europe, dominated the city's skyline during 2008 while the individual flats, which were created off-site, were brought in and fitted on top of each other.