A former city centre cinema could be converted into 100 student flats.
Developers Brick Construction have drawn up plans to revamp the old Odeon building in Market Street, Leicester.
A shopping arcade runs along the ground floor of the premises linking Market Place to Cank Street but the firm wants to put the flats in the disused former auditorium, from floors one to four …
Balfour Beatty has been awarded an £18 million contract to design and build a mixture of educational and commercial accommodation for Homerton College in Cambridge.
The scheme includes a 450-place mixed education and student accommodation building for a new boarding sixth form college.
Building is to commence this autumn and be completed by spring 2016 …
A block of nearly 200 student flats is planned for the city centre.
The building would go up in St Marks Street at its junction with Curzon Street, in St Ann’s if planning permission is granted.
In a bid to offer something different, GMA Architecture has included a cinema, golf simulator, squash court, games rooms and bar as part of the plans for the 198-bedroom accommodation …
Spades are being readied to put into the ground for the start of a major development project on Friargate.
Portergate Properties has appointed the Eric Wright Group to construct an £18 million block of student flats.
A 1.5 acre site on the corner where the road meets Great Shaw Street is to be transformed into a 253 bedroom complex …
A double block of student flats up to 14 floors high is expected to get the go-ahead today – and bring a £1.25million bonanza to the city.
Plymouth City Council’s planning committee is being recommended to approve the proposed £16million Crescent Point development, on derelict land in The Crescent, thus triggering a £959,333 New Homes Bonus payment from the Government.
But the committee is being asked to give the applicant, Concierge 35 Ltd, just three weeks to cough up about £250,000 towards S106 agreements, or the approval will be revoked …
Empiric Student Property has exchanged contracts to acquire the freehold of Talbot Studios, an operating, direct-let, premium student accommodation property in Nottingham, for consideration of £8.2m.
The purpose-built student accommodation property, which opened in 2012, is to be acquired from Romiga Studios. It comprises 98 self-contained studio apartments together with various communal facilities.
The property is let for 51 weeks of the year and is 100% let for the 2014/15 academic year. The property will continue to be managed by Corporate Residential Management …
Councillor fears student accommodation at ‘saturation point’ in Newcastle as another building is proposed to be converted into student flats.
A building that has welcomed in thousands of people in times of need and desperation could start a new chapter in it history as student flats.
In its heyday the Salvation Army City Temple building on Westgate Road in Newcastle attracted worshipers from across the North East to services in its distinctive circular auditorium …
Chalkhill Partners, the boutique investment bank, has priced a £107.26m five-year secured floating rate bond financing affiliates of Avenue Capital Group’s on its acquisition of four UK student accommodation blocks.
The £107.26m bond, issued through AYR Issuer S.A., has a closing LTV of 60%, net of a £3m prefunded six-month interest reserve retained by the issuer.
CoStar News understands that under 10 separate accounts, comprised of predominantly credit funds, acquired the bond which was priced at 145 basis points over three-month LIBOR …
Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £39 million project by Unite Students, the UK’s largest developer and operator of purpose-built student accommodation, for their central London student accommodation development at Stapleton House.
The project includes three main buildings on Holloway Road in Islington that will provide 862 new student residences together with commercial space, reception areas, a plant room, common rooms and ancillary space. The contract includes the demolition of the existing University facilities and student lecture rooms, the construction of an internal landscaped courtyard, amenity space and public realm works.
The project has been designed to achieve the sustainable buildings BREEAM ‘Excellent’ standard …
Newcastle City Council‘s planning committee has granted permission to 45 new student accommodation blocks and conversions since 2008.
While some developments are still to be completed, eventually there will be enough bed spaces in Newcastle to house 11,524 students who attend both Newcastle University and Northumbria University.
The break-down of student accommodation comes as the city council granted permission to transform the former Salvation Army City Temple in Westgate Road into flats for 27 students on Friday …
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