An independent review of how student flats came to be built near an Oxford riverside beauty spot has criticised planning procedures in the city.
The £21.5m Castle Mill development at Port Meadow has been widely criticised as ugly and spoiling the view.
The review found the development could have been better co-ordinated and consultation was inadequate …
Planning consent has been issued for a £35m accommodation complex for 550 students after Secretary of State Eric Pickles decided not to ‘call in’ the application.
Chester Race Company is working with London-based developers The Stephenson Group to deliver the scheme on its Linenhall car park site in the city centre.
Rising to six storeys on the ring road side – opposite the eight storey Crowne Plaza Hotel – the huge building includes a mix of 143 studio flats and 59 shared living apartments …
A fresh application has been submitted to convert a former hotel into student flats.
Similar facelift plans for the empty Pearson Park Hotel in west Hull were rejected by city councillors earlier this year.
At the time they claimed the scheme would be an over-development with too many flats at the site …
A Middlewich contractor has completed a series of student residences with a total value of £35.95m.
Pochin Construction, in Brooks Lane, has carried out work at four UK cities and finished construction on new student accommodation in Edinburgh and Liverpool and refurbishments in London, Liverpool and Leeds.
The £27.45m Fountainbridge student accommodation in Edinburgh for Cityheart has 778 bedrooms over four separate blocks …
Controversial plans to replace a disused church with student housing have been rejected by Bournemouth council’s planning board.
More than 40 residents from Victoria Park in Bournemouth submitted objections about the proposed accommodation block for 46 students taking over the site of a former Apostolic Church.
Concerns were raised over the increased noise and anti-social behaviour as well as the lack of parking spaces …
The former offices of the Yorkshire Post are set to be demolished after all despite speculation they could be converted to student flats.
A report in the Estates Gazette last week said the Leeds city centre building had been sold for £2m to a Yorkshire businessman who planned to turn the offices into accommodation for the city’s growing student population.
But the Yorkshire Evening Post has described the speculation as “well wide of the mark.” …
Mister Investment Group has submitted plans with Lancaster City Council to redevelop the Moorlands Hotel in Quarry Road, Lancaster.
It would include eight apartments altogether.
Two would have six bedrooms, one would have seven bedrooms and five would be studio flats – providing 24 rooms in total …
The purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) sector will play a vital role in tackling the undersupply of student beds and maintaining the status of the UK’s world-class universities, a parliamentary reception has heard.
The PBSA sector has developed from nothing 20 years ago into an industry with more than £20bn of assets that provides 175,000 beds to students, compared with 275,000 in university halls.
This still falls short of the 800,000 beds a year needed for universities to meet their ‘accommodation promise’ to provide housing for first year undergraduate and international students. Richard Simpson, Managing Director of the UK’s leading operator of purpose built student accommodation, UNITE, said that the predicted rise in student numbers, following the removal of number caps in the Autumn Statement, would put further pressure on student accommodation …
The properties in Salford, Bedfordshire, Bournemouth and London, are being sold by administrators PwC, who were one of four accountants appointed to Manchester-based Opal earlier this year.
Student accommodation provider Campus Living Villages has been confirmed at the preferred bidder to acquire eight properties which were formerly part of the failed Opal Student Property Group.
On completion of the deal, it will give CLV an additional 4,539 beds, and will more than double its portfolio to 8,360 …
UWE Bristol has received planning permission to build almost 400 student bedrooms in a development of town houses at Frenchay Campus.
The new accommodation will eventually provide approximately 1,200 new student bed spaces on in three phases of around 400 each.
The latest student accommodation will be developed to provide an alternative to the traditional six person cluster flats, with a mix of en-suite and shared bathrooms and some studio flats in the later phase …
“Victoria Hall engaged TigerLime to conduct a full operational review of one of our student accommodation halls in the North West. We look forward to developing our relationship with TigerLime further and working again together.”
Patrick Cox (Investment Director), Victoria Hall
