The old ITV Tyne Tees site on City Road, Newcastle, will be revamped after the scheme was given the green light by the city council.
The decision comes after a protracted legal process and several meetings with senior council officials.
The £16m investment by U-Student for a 386-bedroom development will add to the 600 rooms the group already owns and operates in Carlisle and Sunderland …
A decision to turn down plans for a 75-room student development in Brynmill is to be challenged.
Swansea Council rejected an application for the former Earlsmoor Nursing Home in July, after councillors agreed a no-car rule would be unenforceable.
The scheme being proposed for the property next to Singleton Park involved demolishing the building and replacing it with flats for university students. But many local residents voiced concerns about the site on the corner of Bryn Road and Brynmill Lane, even though Swansea Council planners recommended the scheme be given the go-ahead, with a “no-car” rule for the students who would live there …
The region’s leading university is considering building 1,000 student flats on a city golf course, it has revealed.
Durham University has agreed to work with developer Banks Property, with a view to buying and building on the north-east corner of the 93-acre Mount Oswald Golf Course, off South Road, Durham, as well as turning Mount Oswald Manor House into offices.
Professor Chris Higgins, the university’s vice-chancellor, said any new student accommodation would be part of its collegiate system and be a balanced academic community – with undergraduates, postgraduates, Fellows and senior academic staff …
A major renovation scheme has been unveiled for the Defence School of Transport Leconfield which will see the replacement of “dilapidated” accommodation blocks.
A planning application for new student accommodation at DST Leconfield – the largest residential driver training school in the world – has been submitted by the Minidstry of Defence (MoD) to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
The current student accommodation comprises eight brick buildings, built in the 1930s, and four modular blocks, which provide 1,238 bed spaces all of which the MOD say are “in dire and urgent need of replacement.” …
Furious residents have launched a petition to block two 18-storey tower blocks being built in the heart of a community.
The Charlotte Place Campaign Group wants to collect 1,000 signatures to fight two separate applications allowing a combined total of 1,500 students to move into the area.
Nazrul Chaudhery, chairman of the group, said: “The community has started a petition and we urge people to sign this. We plan to gather a thousand signatures to show the council and developers we mean business . We want to show that no longer can people take us for granted as we have had enough.”
Liberty Living has already submitted plans to Southampton City Council to double the number of student flats available to 854 rooms Developers Bouygues UK has expressed an interest develop Charlotte Place, 60 to 64 St Mary’s Place, with the remainder of the rooms. It has not submitted a planning application yet …
Buckingham Town councillors came out against an application to build 57 student rooms in Chandos Road, at a meeting last Monday.
The town council’s planning committee voted unanimously to oppose the application for 57 student rooms within eight self-contained flats on the site of the former bungalow, Fir Cottage.
The application by W.E. Black builders, of Chesham, is a variation on a previous planning permission for the demolition of Fir Cottage and the erection of a block of 12 apartments, which was granted in 2009. The bungalow has since been demolished …
A planning inspector has delivered a major blow to city council plans to control the spread of shared and student housing in Oxford.
Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University have both bitterly opposed “a housing tax” introduced by the council, to make them contribute to social housing as the price of being allowed to build new student accommodation.
The council policy adds significantly to the cost of student homes, with a “social housing charge” of £140 per square metre, plus a five per cent administration charge …
Scores of people voiced their opposition to a highrise student development in Southampton at a fiery public meeting last night.
Community leaders joined St Mary’s residents, councillors and Test MP Alan Whitehead to hear more about two tower blocks that would house 1,500 students in the heart of the city .
Respresentatives from developers Liberty Living and Bouygues were at the meeting at Newtown Youth Centre where many people expressed their fears over issues including car parking spaces, congestion and antisocial behaviour …
Bahrain-based bank Oasis Capital is reported to be selling its stake in a joint venture with student accommodation provider Unite.
Bloomberg said that the firm plans to sell its 75% stake in Prime Central London Student. The stake comprises three student accommodation buildings in London’s Islington and Southwark districts.
The bank is seeking to raise more than $244 million (£150 million) from the sale, the newswire reported …
Advised by CBRE, the Coral Student Portfolio (“Coral”), a fund that invests in student accommodation funds and joint ventures, has entered into a new investment, the Student Development Partnership. The partnership has invested in two new student housing sites; one in Coventry and the other in Birmingham. Both sites will be developed and operated by leading student accommodation provider, Victoria Hall Management (UK) Ltd.
Both schemes, which have a combined estimated end value of £50 million, are scheduled for completion in September 2013 ready to support that year’s student intake.
Located opposite the Coventry University campus, the Alma Road scheme will comprise 404 beds – helping to meet the university’s growing accommodation demands. Coventry University has seen applications increase 9% since 2010 according to figures from UCAS. The Birmingham scheme is adjacent to The University of Birmingham and will comprise 434 beds …
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