Brighton and Hove may still need for 1,700 more student rooms
Brighton and Hove will still have need for 1,700 more student rooms even after all current purpose-built private schemes and a £150 million university expansion are completed, a developer has said.
Nick Scott, development director at CKC Properties which has two live planning applications for more than 260 student rooms around the Vogue Gyratory, said the city remained under supplied for student accommodation despite significant investment in purpose-built facilities in recent years.
Concerns have been raised how much of that additional demand will be met in the Lewes Road corridor which residents already fear is being consumed by “studentification” …