Year: 2015

A proposed scheme to create a six-storey accommodation complex with 399 rooms near the University of Liverpool looks set to be waved through by Liverpool City Council.

The local authority’s planning committee has been advised that the development would bring a vacant and unattractive site back into beneficial use.

On Tuesday, 23 June 2015, Liverpool City Council’s planning committee is due to determine the outcome of an application by Queensland Place to create a student accommodation block rising to six storeys in height on land bounded by Chatham Place, Overbury Street and Queensland Street. The site was previously occupied by a school but is now vacant following demolition works …

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Plans for a £30 million expansion of a riverside student flats complex in Leicester’s West End have been drawn up.

The scheme, proposed by Code Student Accommodation, would see a 14 storey block built on land to the south of the company’s existing accommodation at the previously-converted Equity Shoe factory in Western Road.

Code has acquired land at the rear of the Western pub, from Everards brewery, and a former knitwear factory for the development …

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Plans for new student accommodation on a derelict site off Netherthorpe Road in Sheffield have been given the go-ahead by councillors.

The proposals, by Worthington Properties and Panacea Property Development, were recommended for approval and subsequently approved by the Council Planning amd Highways Committee on 16 June.

The nine-storey building will incorporate 305 student bedrooms in units of varying sizes, ranging from studios, through to cluster flats and two and three bedroom apartments …

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Plans to redevelop of the student nightclub capital of Liverpool with four blocks between three and 10 storeys high have been submitted to the city council’s planners.

The scheme in the historic Ropewalks area will see the Nation and Kazimier clubs as well as the smaller Cream club, currently housed in dilapidated warehouses, replaced.

There will be a replacement nightclub over two basement levels, a range of commercial units and a total of 427 self contained studio apartments and 20 one-bed apartments with an existing warehouse …

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Unite Students, the UK’s leading developer and manager of student accommodation, announces that the Unite UK Student Accommodation Fund (“USAF”), in which the Group has a 22% stake, has exchanged contracts to acquire a 2,100 bed student accommodation portfolio for £271 million.

The acquisition will be funded in cash from the proceeds of USAF’s recent equity raise, announced on 19 May 2015. The acquisition will complete by 30 June 2015 …

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The portfolio of the suspended Mansion Student Accommodation Fund has been put up for sale with a price tag of more than £400m.

Knight Frank has been appointed by International Mutual Fund, which represents MSAF, to sell the Ardent portfolio which comprises 25 student properties located across 12 cities.

The sale has been expected for some time after the fund was suspended and closed to redemptions in October 2013 …

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A £67m development will bring 441 new student studios to the west end of Glasgow.

The site, measuring almost three acres comes as part of a £1.2bn redevelopment of the area situated on Beith Street near Partick.

The 441 self-contained studios, incorporating 501 beds, will be developed, let and managed under Select Property Group’s Vita Student brand …

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Round Hill has emerged as frontrunner and is about to go in to an exclusivity period to buy the portfolio which is owned by Carphone Warehouse founder Sir Charles Dunstone and former chief executive Roger Taylor.

It fought off competition from Liberty Living and Europa Capital for the portfolio, with the pricing reflecting a yield of around 4.5% …

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A warehouse close to the university in Preston is to be converted into luxury student accommodation.

Lime Oak Properties has been granted permission to create 44 new student flats in the first floor of the building in Fylde Road.

Plans show an upmarket interior for students with 40 studio flats, two two-bedroom flats and two one-bedroom flats …

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Kenneth Reid Architects have submitted plans on behalf of 83S Ltd to erect a 141 bed student residential development at Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh.

Arranged around a central courtyard the accommodation of colour and varying surface treatments to aid navigation and inject visual interest with unspecified materials of the ‘highest quality’.

In a design statement the architects noted: “The building is interesting to look at and to move around inside with key focal points expressed in all facades, the principal entrance is off one of the key courtyards and is clearly displayed …

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