Plans have been submitted to eradicate Scarborough town centre’s Salisbury Arcade. The plans have been submitted by developers who have already been given planning permission to develop the former hotel, which lies above the arcade, in to student accommodation.
A number of objectors have already opposed the scheme stating it will result in the loss of a “heritage asset” …
An application to knock down the art deco building in The Common and replace it with a mixed use development comprising 111 student bedrooms within two buildings, plus two retail units, have been approved by Welwyn Hatfield Council.
The plan, by Village Homes, is a scaled down version of a larger proposal which had been approved on appeal last year …
With freshers’ week under way more university students have been arriving on campus this year with some trying to avoid next year’s rise in tuition fees.
In Aberystwyth, increased numbers have stretched student accommodation to the limit with bunk beds being used.
Some first year students are sharing rooms meant for just one person …
Supermarket giant Tesco has submitted plans for a new 40,000 sq ft store in Buxton. The outline application for the supermarket, on the Station Road site urrently occupied by Buxton Water, was lodged late last week. The new store would be twice the size of Tesco’s existing store in Whaley Bridge. The proposal also includes a 50,000 sq ft mixed-use development that would also incorporate student accommodation …
Multi-million pound plans have been revealed to build an exclusive millionaires’ row on a North-East golf course, along with more than 300 homes and 1,000 student flats. Developer Banks Property unveiled its ambitious £200m plans for the 93-acre Mount Oswald Golf Course, in South Road, Durham City…
THE former Bristol Magistrates’ Court building will be redeveloped into flats and a hotel, after councillors finally gave approval.
Developer Deeley Freed will now be able to convert the Nelson Street building into a 161-bed Travelodge hotel, with 132 student flats.
The council had wanted the company to contribute around £1 million in planning obligations, most of which would be used to improve the public realm around the site …
An attempt by a cyclists’ group to throw a spoke in the works of Cambridge’s station area redevelopment fell flat today.
The second phase of the £850 million cb1 project was approved, promising new homes, shops and restaurants, despite complaints that bike parking and access to it were a “botch” job …
A new £22 million project aimed at housing the growing number of university students learning in Colchester has been unveiled.
650 new student bedrooms are to be opened on Essex University’s Colchester Campus in two years’ time.
The university has hired developer Uliving to design, build, finance and run the new accommodation at the Meadows, which will be on land next to the campus.
The £22 million complex of town houses will accommodate 228 students in groups of 12 along with en-suite clusters of flats for a further 420 students …
Temporary accommodation has been created to house the University of Lincoln’s surge in new students.
About 3,000 first-year students will descend on the city this weekend to start their journey into further education.
The University of Lincoln registrar Chris Spendlove checks out one of the temporary buildings which have been put up to house students following an accommodation crisis …
Kingston University’s nine-year dream of building a 1,000-bedroom student village has been declared a “dead duck” by a planning inspector.
The proposals, for Thames Water land on the Berrylands sewage treatment works, formed a key part of Kingston Council’s 15-year vision for the borough.
But in a letter on September 9, the water company’s chief executive said officers were told it would not release the land eight months ago …
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