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The building, due for completion in September 2013, has been designed by local architects Allies and Morrison and includes new premises for the Central School of Ballet.

The developer, McLaren Property, has now formed a joint venture with Bahrain-based Islamic real estate investment company Tadhamon Capital and London-based Apache Capital Partners.

The 253-bedroom residence will be managed by the Victoria Hall company which also runs the Dashwood Studios student accommodation in Walworth Road …

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King’s College London is planning a £30m redevelopment of student accommodation and is advertising for contractors.KCL, together with the University Partnerships Programme (UPP), has submitted plans to Southwark Council to redevelop the student residence on Champion Hill in East Dulwich.

The plans include the refurbishment of the Victorian building, known as Platanes House, and the replacement of the existing 1960s buildings, to deliver improved accommodation for students, and enhance the visual appearance of the campus.

The planning permission and listed building consent grants the construction of four new buildings ranging from between four and five storeys in height, refurbishment of Platanes and the Annex to provide a maximum of 740 student bedrooms …

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Cardiff’s student housing boom looks set to continue with new plans submitted for two major developments in the city centre.

If approved by Cardiff council’s planning committee the schemes would see the creation of almost 280 extra student beds.

It comes after a 348-bed tower was recently approved at Mynachdy and St Andrews Lane and a bid for a 250-bed scheme on City Road awaits consent. Local development company Charnwood Group wants to build a 79-bedroom student accommodation building, with 200 square metres of retail space, at 23-24 Park Place.

Elsewhere, Cardiff-based developer JR Smart wants to transform Shand House, at the junction of Newport Road and Fitzalan Place in the city centre, into a 198 student bed dorm …

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Irish businessman Philip Marley has vowed to fight receivers granted an injunction preventing his company from acting as the manager of two student accommodation blocks in England.

Receivers appointed by NatWest to Bower Terrace Student Accommodation and Herbal Hill Studios had sought to prevent Mr Marley’s Space Student Living (Space) firm from continuing to act as manager of the two associated properties.

The buildings include one in London that comprises 45 studio apartments and another in Maidstone, Kent, with 114 studios …

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Outline plans to transform Chatham Docks have been approved.

The scheme would be dominated by an ASDA supermarket and include up to 950 apartments.

Chatham Docks owners Peel Land & Property also plan to build shops, offices, student flats, hotels, an events city, a multi-storey car park, an extension to the university campus at Chatham Maritime and a riverside walk …

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A Holloway pub is set to be pulled down to make space for 12 storeys of student housing.

The Metro, in Holloway Road, will be torn down and a 40 metre tower, containing 212 flats, will be built after Islington Council planners nodded the plan through last Thursday.

The pub has been popular with students form nearby London Metropolitan University for many years and used to be known as both Spoofers, and The Holloway …

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An £11m contract to build the first stage of a new residential development at the University of Stirling has been awarded to Graham Construction.

The contract is the first of three deals to be awarded.

Karen Plouviez, director of estates and campus services, said it was the largest capital project the university had undertaken since it was created in the late 1960s …

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A planning application has been submitted for a 15-storey extension to a student accommodation complex in Hulme, Manchester.

L&A Developments plans to build a 100-bed tower containing 30 flats on the surface car park to the rear of the site off Boundary Lane.

The project is designed by SW Foulkes Architects and the planning advisor is Graham Bolton Planning …

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The University of Hertfordshire has named Bouygues joint venture Uliving as its preferred development partner to build student accommodation on campus.

Uliving is made up of Bouygues Development and not-for-profit accommodation operator, Derwent Living.Uliving will take over management of the existing 502 residences on the College Lane campus in Hatfield and build a further 2,511 rooms.

The campus upgrade will also provide new sports pitches, a campus gym, informal learning and social spaces and a new dedicated bus route. The £175m scheme will be delivered in three phases. The first phase is set to start in May 2013 and complete in September 2014, in time for the new academic year. The second phase completes in September 2015, and the third in September 2016, so that for each phase the bulk of the work takes place during the students’ long summer vacation …

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Offices will be turned into accommodation for 261 students aged under 18 in a £2.7 million project.

Councillors unanimously approved an application to convert Elizabeth House in High Street, Chesterton, into bedrooms for teenagers taking pre-university courses. They will be attending CATS College in Round Church Street, or the Cambridge School of Visual Performing Arts in Bridge Street.

Elizabeth House is currently home to GE, which is expected to move to new premises …

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