Year: 2014

Developers will unveil their proposals for three key sites in Bournemouth town centre on Monday.

Representatives from Watkin Jones will outline their plans to redevelop sites at Oxford Road, Holdenhurst Road and the corner of Christchurch at St Swithun’s road at a planning board meeting.

No planning application has yet been submitted but Watkin Jones is giving a pre-application presentation to councillors to get initial feedback on its ideas …

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A prominent city building is to get a major makeover after plans for student flats were given the go-ahead.

The former Bensons For Beds shop in Brock Street is to be converted into student accommodation over three floors, with new retail space on the ground floor.

The building dates back to 1844 when it was built as an Oddfellows Hall.

The plans, submitted by Inayat Munshi, who also owns the Sultan of Lancaster across the road, include dormer windows on the roof to make the best use of the space – which will comprise of 35 studio apartments …

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Sheffield is set to receive a £2.5 million eco-friendly student accommodation development.

London-based Crossbow Investments has purchased 675 sq m on Henry Street in Sheffield for the development.

The scheme, comprising 47 units of cabin style accommodation, follows the developer’s acquisition of 1576m sq of land at Dunfields in Kelham Island for 18 individual plots which has been developed into student accommodation …

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A 241 Student accommodation scheme including ancillary common rooms, amenity and leisure facilities, and new A3 café at ground floor level, together with new public realm and pedestrian routes through the site with the reinstatement of Jacob Street, is being proposed at the site of the former Bristol Evening Post building …

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The property company behind the regeneration of the former Silver Blades ice rink is now looking to tap into Birmingham’s burgeoning student accommodation market.

Bouygues Development signed a joint venture in the summer with Hallmark Investments to turn the former Pershore Street ice rink into flats following its closure in May.

Now, the London-based firm has lodged new plans for a major halls of residence close to Five Ways Island, in Edgbaston …

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Plans for a six–storey student accommodation block with 205 bedrooms look set to be approved.

Planning officers at Brighton and Hove City Council have recommended the planning committee grant permission for the development in Hollingdean Road.

If voted through, the buildings at number 52 and 54, along with 46 Freehold Terrace, will be demolished to make way for the unit which will also include a laundrette, office space, cycle store and roof garden …

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Detailed plans to transform a historic York convent into a “sustainable student village” have been unveiled.

A planning application to convert the 19th century St Joseph’s Convent on Lawrence Street into studios and apartments for students, and build new accommodation on the site, has been submitted to City of York Council.

In total, 660 student bedrooms will be created on the site, if the plans get the go ahead, but the designs show owners Vita Student and architects Fuse Studios are aiming to keep much of the historic orchard intact …

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Work has finally started on a scheme to create a new future for an historic Huddersfield building.

Scaffolding is going up around the former Palace Theatre in Kirkgate, which is going to be converted into student flats.

The owner of the building, Huddersfield businessman Simmy Sekhon, wants to create 110 apartments in the building …

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Empiric Student Property PLC Tuesday said it had bought the Dean Clarke Lofts student accommodation in Exeter for GBP4.5 million, its second student property in the city.

It said Dean Clarke Lofts is a luxury student accommodation conversion of a Grade 2 listed, Georgian building on Southernhay Gardens in Exeter. It comprises 30 beds arranged in large loft-style studio apartments featuring mezzanine bedrooms and “individually furnished to very high specifications” …

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A high-spec, 65-bed student housing development is to be built in an up-and-coming area of Newcastle after a Malaysian businessman who once studied in the city returned to find a “booming” property market.

Johnny Chen Yee Wong graduated from a quantity surveying course at what was then Newcastle Polytechnic in 1984, before returning to his home country to found one of Malaysia’s biggest property development firms, The W Group.

On visiting Newcastle again in 2013, he found it had grown significantly and recognised that, with two universities to cater for, student accommodation represented an obvious investment choice …

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