Year: 2010

An eleven-storey block of luxury apartments in Tottenham’s Hale Village will feature a roof garden and allotments when it opens next summer.

The building – Block NW1 – is the next development of the £350 million project to open and offers 102 homes as well as a community space where residents can enjoy the views of the River Lea.

Hale Village is the brainchild of Lee Valley Estates in partnership with Newlon Housing Trust and United House and set on the old GLS depot site between Tottenham Hale Sation and the Lea Valley Navigation …

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Plans to transform Coventry’s former Royal Mail sorting office into a new £70million shopping complex have been welcomed by nearby businesses.

They hope the development of the Bishop Street site will completely revamp and regenerate the area.

As the Telegraph reported on Tuesday, Barberry Developers plan to attract a supermarket, large specialist retailers, a hotel and leisure facilities such as a gym. They could also add parking facilities and student accommodation on the upper floors …

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Bristol-based student accommodation provider the Unite Group has appointed Professor Tim Wilson as a non-executive director.

Professor Wilson, 61, was appointed vice chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire in September 2003, following an academic career with Leeds Metropolitan, Cranfield and De Montfort universities. 

As well as serving on the board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England he has been a board member of East of England Development Agency for six years and also deputy chair of the CBI Innovation, Science and Technology Committee …

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A joint venture partnership between University of York and Leeds-based Evans Property Group has secured a £16.5m debt facility from Santander Corporate Banking’s real estate finance team in Leeds.

The facility helped finance the purchase of seven blocks of student accommodation.

Santander was advised by DLA Piper in Leeds. The University of York was advised by Yorkshire-based law firm Dickinson Dees …

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Plans for a new student tower in south London have received local authority support, which could result in the creation of new construction jobs in the area.

The London Borough of Southwark has given its approval for the existing Capital House on Weston Street to be demolished and for construction work to take place on the 108-metre high ‘Quill’ tower in its stead.

Once completed, this new facility will comprise 470 units of student accommodation, as well as an ancillary bar, gym, library, student hub and retail and cafe units, while 261 cycle parking places will also be installed on the site …

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New plans for student accommodation in Headington have been welcomed.

The London Road site has been the subject of planning battles, with Dorset House, a large Victorian property, already demolished.

The site was acquired by Berkeley Homes which has now submitted plans for three and four storey buildings to accommodate 316 Oxford Brookes students …

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Bristol architectrual practice GSSArchitecture has won a contract to design a £15 million student accommodation scheme for Oxford Brookes University – its third project for the university.

Harcourt Hill, in Oxford, and will provide accommodation for 346 students in two large blocks. Each student will have an individual ensuite room, and there will be shared kitchens. Both buildings will feature sustainable green roofs.

An earlier GSS student accommodation project for Oxford Brookes is reaching completion at Marston Road in Oxford. This £17 million scheme, which consists of a series of linked three- and four-storey pavilions arranged around a central quadrangle, provides an additional 358 places for both post-graduates and undergraduates. An adjacent scheme at Morrell Halls, also designed by GSS and completed recently, provides another 160 places …

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A planning application submitted by Spenhill, the regeneration subsidiary of Tesco, for the regeneration of Trinity Square in Gateshead has been approved by Gateshead Council. As well as student accommodation and retail space, the mixed-use scheme will provide over 37,000 sq ft of new office space in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 

Designed by 3DReid, the £150m proposals include a new town square, 45 retail units, offices, a student village with over 900 beds, town centre parking and a Tesco store as well as the potential for a hotel. Pedestrian links will also integrate the town centre with the existing regeneration successes at the quayside.

The scheme will transform Trinity Square into a vibrant centre that the people of Gateshead can be proud of and want to visit, increasing Gateshead’s standing as the regeneration capital of the North East and adding to its major regeneration developments at Gateshead Quays and surrounding town including Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead International Stadium and the Metrocentre …

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Following several major contract wins earlier in the year, including the £40 million Moray Schools projects and three housing projects for Aberdeen City Council, Stewart Milne Construction has announced new contract wins totalling £20 million. The latest new contracts include private housing, student accommodation, affordable housing, and commercial developments.

In Edinburgh, the company has won a contract to convert office premises at Wellgate House in the Cowgate, to form a 44 bed en-suite student accommodation development. The project is Stewart Milne Construction’s first on behalf of specialist developer Ziggurat Student Living and is due for completion in June 2011.

Further North, contracts have been awarded by Dundee City Council to build new housing, part of the first phase of the Council’s directly funded housing programme – the first for 30 years. Stewart Milne Construction will build 23 houses and four flats at Alloway Place and Auchrannie Terrace. Highly specified, the homes will include numerous sustainable features and systems, and adaptations will be made to several properties to suit tenants with disabilities …

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A developer planning to build a 15-storey block of flats for students is scaling the project down after complaints the building was too high.

Developer Jamie Lewis Residential has asked Leicester City Council for permission to create 479 student flats in four buildings on Upperton Road in Westcotes, Leicester, next to the Great Central Way.

However, after feedback from council planning officers, the developer is now planning for the tallest building to be 10 storeys high …

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