Plans to build flats that will house more than 600 students near Sheffield United’s ground are set to get the green light next week.
The proposal is to create one block for 535 student bed spaces in ‘pod units’ and a separate building with 73 private apartments on two pieces of land that straddle Unstone Street and used to be a nursery or a car sales plot …
Another major block of student accommodation could be coming to the heart of Cambridge.
Homerton College has put in plans for a new £8.5 million, 120-bed student residence block on Hills Road, which will replace a number of buildings to be demolished at the site close to Harrison Drive.
The new accommodation, which goes as high as four storeys in places, is part of a college-wide estates strategy – the most urgent need of which is new student accommodation …
Final plans for a 350-flat complex up to eight storeys high have now been approved, meaning construction work can start in the New Year.
The huge new building will be built on a current city centre car park in Back of the Walls.
Plans to build offices on the site were handed in back in 1985 and 1991, but they fell by the wayside.
The 30,000sq m site in Back of the Walls is currently an NCP car park and was also used as an electricity board depot and warehouse …
Investors from around the world say they will never put money into Liverpool again after their experience of dealing with a city “landlord from hell”.
They have been bombarding council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald with complaints about Nigel Russell, who runs a number of student properties around Liverpool.
City leaders sold the Grade II listed St Andrew’s Church in Rodney Street for £1 to one of Mr Russell’s companies in 2010.
Mr Russell had been jailed in the USA for passport fraud, tax evasion and illegal possession of firearms in the mid 2000s, and after a spell working in Dubai, returned to Liverpool to set up his property empire …
The Board of Empiric Student Property plc (ticker: ESP) is pleased to announce that the Group has acquired the freehold on an operational, direct-let, premium student accommodation property in Leeds, for a consideration of £7.2 million.
The acquisition is expected to complete on 13 January 2015. Algernon Firth is a high-quality student accommodation conversion of a Grade 2 listed building located within walking distance of both the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University.
The property, which was completed in August 2013, comprises 111 beds in a mixture of en-suite flats and large loft-style studios. The property has been converted to a very high specification and includes high quality communal areas, such as a well-equipped gym and dedicated study areas …
Manchester City bosses are set to pump £175m into the transformation of The University of Manchester’s Fallowfield campus.
Abu-Dhabi-based Mubadala Development Company, run by Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak, has put up the cash to redevelop the sprawling Owens Park site.
The campus’ distinctive tower block and surrounding buildings will be demolished and replaced with a brand new state-of-the-art student village …
Construction specialists Opus Building Services have started work on a £7.5m student accommodation development in the heart of Newcastle city centre.
Property firm Ziggurat was last year granted permission to convert eight properties in Claremont Place – on the doorstep of Northumbria and Newcastle universities – creating 92 self-contained studios for students.
The buildings had been put up for sale by Newcastle University in 2012, and lengthy design work has been carried out since last year’s sale to make sure the original 19th-century townhouse features are kept in place …
Shropshire councillors have approved proposals for the development of living accommodation for students at the new University Centre Shrewsbury.
At a meeting of the full Shropshire Council, councillors agreed to delegate authority to the council’s Chief Executive, in consultation with the council’s lead finance officer, to acquire and fit out student living accommodation by the most economical route – subject to the completion of a satisfactory feasibility study.
A number of options in Shrewsbury town centre have been considered for living accommodation. Negotiations have been taking place with potential suppliers and it is hoped that an agreement on a preferred site will be reached shortly …
Controversial plans to convert a historic building in Newcastle into student flats have been approved.
The city council on Friday gave the green light to proposals to develop the former Barclays Bank on Grey Street into 116 bedrooms with shared kitchens.
The idea had been criticised by the Northumberland and Newcastle Society, which this year marks its 90th anniversary …
New student accommodation looks set to be built on derelict land in the centre of Bolton — despite objections from the University of Bolton.
Developers will be told today whether they have permission to build a seven-storey building on empty wasteland in Great Moor Street next to the Balmoral pub.
The application, which council planning officers are asking councillors to approve, will see 41 student cluster flats built with 140 bedrooms …
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