Year: 2017

The number of students living in Norwich city centre could be swelled by more than 600, after a bid was lodged to turn offices into student flats.

The past few months have seen a surge in the number of applications to convert buildings or to build new ones specifically for use by students.

With the University of East Anglia, Norwich University of the Arts and City College Norwich, there is high demand for accommodation …

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While large international investment funds continue to commit millions of pounds into UK portfolios of student housing, there have been regional news stories quoting local residents’ unease at yet another student housing development in their neighbourhood.

At Alumno our focus is on changing the perception of these developments, and highlighting the importance of student communities as part of the wider place-building agenda …

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Plans to build 138 luxury student flats on the site of a former school building, a town hall and Stokes warehouses in the centre of Lincoln have been approved.

At a planning meeting at the City of Lincoln Council on Wednesday, September 13, 10 members voted for and one against plans …

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Interest in a plot of land – which already has planning permission for student accommodation – is expected to be huge when it goes under the auctioneer’s hammer later this month …

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The Government has revealed it is turning its focus to other cladding systems used on buildings after revealling a total of 266 high-rises are fitted with aluminium cladding failing fire safety tests.

It has also called on local authorities to check the safety of buildings using concrete panel systems and the safety of cladding in high winds.

The long-awaited verdict on various ACM cladding systems reveals that just 12 of the 278 buildings tested in England are fitted with safe systems.

Those that fail and will need cladding include 165 housing blocks, 59 student residences and 26 private housing high-rises. Sixteen public buildings have also been fitted with substandard cladding systems …

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Construction has commenced on a new purpose-built 117-bedroom student accommodation development in Leeds.

Crosslane Student Developments, part of the Crosslane Group, has started work on the student accommodation development at Woodhouse Square in Leeds, after successfully securing planning permission.

The new development has an expected value of approximately £15m once it has completed in September 2018, in time for the start of the 2018/19 academic year …

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Hello Student, which is owned by Empiric Student Property, has partnered with furniture designer Conran Shop to refurbish the prime floor of each of its key university residences …

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Proposed changes to planning requirements for student accommodation will make it impossible to build new developments in the capital and exacerbate the housing crisis, it has been claimed.

Dublin city council will vote on 4th September on whether to approve a proposal that would give planning authorities further scope to oppose new apartment developments for students. Under the proposal, developers would have to prove that no existing student accommodation exists within 1km of a planned development — an extension of the current 250m zone …

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Students have been housed 27 miles away from their classes due to an accommodation crisis.

Stirling University said it has been hit by a near 20 per cent increase in requests for rooms in student halls.

Around 180 students due to start the new term this month – including some in first year – were told that they did not have accommodation on the parkland-style campus …

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A report on student housing in Bristol has said thousands of new student flats will be needed in the city over the next few years.

The report, by property advisor CBRE, says there are currently over 40,000 full time students in Bristol but that number is expected to grow …

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