Year: 2014

Students moving into the new Northumbria University accommodation in Gateshead this month can expect to live in the lap of luxury.

Gone are the days of shared bathrooms and shoebox bedrooms, it seems, if the newly-unveiled flats at the heart of the town centre’s Trinity Square redevelopment are anything to go by.

As the doors of the 993-bed ultra-modern complex were opened for the first time yesterday, to allow the media to have a sneak peak before it opens for business next week, the stylish living accommodation and social facilities were revealed for the first time …

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Unite commits to student halls projects in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Portsmouth.

Specialist student accommodation provider Unite has added four major student halls schemes to its development pipeline, worth £125 million in total.

The company said it has secured four sites in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Portsmouth and plans to complete them, which between them will deliver 2,261 student beds, in 2016 …

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Plans are about to be unveiled showing how a historic York convent could be converted into 21st century student accommodation.

St Joseph’s Convent was home to a closed order of Poor Clare Colettines for 140 years, until its closure was announced in October last year.

Now part of the land has been acquired by Vita Student Management, and the company is holding a community consultation event to show people their plans for the site …

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Multi-million pound plans have been announced for a 395-bed student village on an industrial site.

County Properties (Northern) Group want to build a “student residence eco village” on the Berendsen’s laundry site, off the A167 in Neville’s Cross, Durham City.

The firm plans to move to a bigger site on an industrial estate in Meadowfield, potentially creating more jobs …

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A five storey block of 182 student flats is planned for a central Middlesbrough site.

Cliff Court Developments has received planning approval for the scheme, which is proposed for the old Douglas House site on Marton Road.

The site, where the old Marton Road School used to stand, has been the subject of planning applications in the past, with a controversial 120-flat scheme – dubbed a “monstrous carbuncle” by one councillor and opposed by several people living nearby – kicked out by councillors in 2005 …

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Manchester-based firm Day Architectural plans to build 35 clusters, with 178 beds as well as 191 studio apartments at Blandford Square, Newcastle city centre.

The property will have a ground floor reception, lounge, cinema room and associated car parking, cycle storage, and refuse storage.

Day Architectural is also responsible for the £8 million St James Point development on Pitt Street in Newcastle city centre …

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Adderstone Group has outlined plans for a £17m student accommodation development – the firm’s second in Newcastle city centre.

Proposals have been submitted to council planners by Ainsworth Spark Associates on behalf of the group, outlining plans for the 250-bed development, based on Stepney Road.

Car parking and cycle parking spaces will be included in the Stepney Studios development, which is due to be open in 2016 and comes days after the firm’s first student development, £17m Union Square opens its doors to its first residents …

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A massive £30 million regeneration development featuring a student village has been announced for Birmingham.

Alumno Developments is investing the money to deliver a canalside scheme at Eastside Locks, which will be one of the first prominent buildings visitors see as they arrive at the proposed HS2 Curzon Street Station.

Architect Dav Bansal, of city practice Glenn Howells, said Birmingham had been poorly served with student accommodation but promised a student housing scheme to compete with any other …

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Returns on prime student accommodation in the regions are continuing to perform better than other property asset classes, according to latest research from CBRE.

The property consultancy’s ‘UK Student Housing Market View’ highlights growing interest in the sector from institutional investors.

The sector’s second Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), Empiric Student Property plc, launched this year and has already embarked on an aggressive acquisition programme …

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Balfour Beatty has won a £24 million construction contract to build student accommodation for Campus Living Villages.

The building, based in Shepherd’s Bush London, will house 417 students from the Royal College of Music.

The contractor will demolish the existing facilities and aim to have the new accommodation in place by September 2015 …

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