Year: 2015

Plans for a massive new student housing scheme in an Aberdeen community have been officially lodged.

Property management company, Telereal Trillium, is aiming to build accommodation for 425 students at the former BT telephone engineering centre, situated at the city’s Froghall Terrace.

They also plan on building 80 new flats for residents and creating car parking. A planning application was put forward in 2004 proposing to build around 110 flats on the unused site, but it is understood that permission has now expired.

During consultation with the local community, residents raised concerns about the new development, in particular a lack of student parking space and possible flooding risk.

One resident even said she did not want to live beside a “student campus”.

Nigel Reid, Telereal Trillium’s senior development manager, said they had listened to the concerns and reduced the number of student units …

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A proposal to create almost 200 student rooms on the site of a historic former church schoolhouse in Liverpool looks set to be given the green light by planners.

The head of planning has told councillors that the issues concerned with the application are finely balanced but that it would be difficult to argue why the impact of an additional student accommodation complex would warrant refusal.

Liverpool City Council’s planning committee will meet to discuss a proposal by Bridgewater Services to redevelop the site in and around a grade II-listed former schoolhouse at 55 Great Crosshall Street near the Cultural Quarter on Tuesday (17 November 2015).

The original building dates back to the 1860s and has a honey-coloured sandstone front elevation with gothic-style window details but has been extensively altered inside.

The developer is proposing to convert the former schoolhouse and construct a new part-five, part-six and part-eight storey accommodation block linking into the rear of the building with 31 studios and 29 accommodation clusters. The scheme would create 193 student rooms in total …

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A pair of developments which will provide more than 210 bedrooms for students in Birmingham are set to be given the green light tomorrow.

Birmingham City Council’s planning committee is expected to follow officers’ recommendations and approve the projects in Nechells and the city centre.

In September, the Post reported that plans had been lodged by Birmingham-based Millenium Holdings to redevelop land between Windsor Street and Kellett Road, east of Aston University’s campus

The building would range from two to four storeys and provide 72 bedrooms across a mix of studios and shared flats, 34 bikes spaces but none for cars.

Manchester-based O’Connell East Architects has designed the project while the directors of Millenium Holdings have previous experience in the hospitality and care home industries …

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Plans have been submitted to build a 16-storey student accommodation tower in the centre of Newcastle. If given the go-ahead the project would involve demolishing a four-storey office block considered to have a “”tired”” look in the context of surrounding properties.

The proposal put forward by Crosslane Student Living is in relation to the existing Technopole Building.

The company wishes to demolish the property and in its place build a single student accommodation property comprising 16 storeys in an H-shape. The southern wing of the proposed building includes a sloped section from levels ten to 16 which is intended to add visual interest to the façade.

The building would comprise 462 student bed spaces made up of 168 studios and 294 bed spaces arranged in clusters.

The Technopole Building which currently occupies the application site is considered to be under occupied and has been for a considerable period of time. A planning statement drawn up by Lambert Smith Hampton (LSH) said there have been no realistic offers from users seeking to retain the existing office use …

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Planning permission for a new 51-bedroom student accommodation next to the University of South Wales’ Treforest campus has been rejected by councillors.

Rhondda Cynon Taf council ’s planning committee met on Thursday, November 5, and rejected the application by developers T.L. Developments Ltd for a proposed three-storey building at Park Pride in Brook Street.

The plans outlined three sections of a large new building each containing 17 bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms. It would have taken the place of a residential bungalow currently at the site, which would have been demolished …

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A former Salvation Army hostel could be turned into student accommodation as 79 new flats have been planned for the city.

Maber Architects, on behalf of Megaclose Ltd, have asked for planning permission to use the Boston Street site as homes for some of the city’s students.

Plans involve increasing the number of rooms from 70 to 79. The Salvation Army left the building, known as Sneinton House, in February 2014, despite homeless residents launching a petition to save the hostel.

They gathered more than 1,000 signatures against the move. It had been a fixture of the city centre since 1995 and was the last Salvation Army hostel in central Nottingham, the home city of the organisation’s founder, William Booth.

Former staff member Ian Ritchie, 69, of Mapperley, said: “”It’s very sad that it closed. I understand there’s a need for student flats in the city centre, but it seems like there is nowhere for people who need a place to go. There’s Framework, but there are no more Salvation Army buildings in central Nottingham. That goes against everything the Salvation Army stands for …

A spokeswoman for the Salvation Army said they were unable to comment on planning applications for former buildings.

She added: “”We continue to work to ensure our church and charity is able to help those who need us through our corps in Nottingham, as well as our William Booth Memorial Complex.””

If granted planning permission by Nottingham City Council, the flats would add to the growing number of student halls in the city centre.

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Planning officials have given the green light for a student accommodation development with 221 rooms in Aberdeen.

Crucible Alba will develop the Michael Laird Architects-designed facility on the site of McConechy’s Garage on Willowbank Road.

The building, which will have its main entrance on Willowbank Road, will have 44 flats across four storeys and will include a cafe, games facility and “breakout” room.

It will also have a courtyard garden and parking for 25 vehicles. Michael Laird Architects said the design “offers a crisp modern aesthetic where the use of granite allows the building to sit seamlessly within Aberdeen’s cityscape”.

Work is set to get underway next year ..

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