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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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A developer has put forward plans to tear down the Voodoo Lounge and Buyology site near Above Bar to make way for hundreds of apartments.

If their proposals are given the green light, a building up to 11 storeys high would rise up from Vincents Walk. and tower over Above Bar It means that there are currently more than £260 million of major student accommodation developments that have been recently completed, are being built or are planned in the city.

The sites, offering rooms for more than 4,000 students, include the Mayflower Halls and City Gateway schemes that are now open and others such as the former B&Q site in Mayfield Road and Back of the Walls which have planning permission.

Victoria Hall Management, which runs student accommodation across the country, has filed plans for the new building of up to 11 storeys in Vincents Walk.

If they are approved the buildings housing the former Voodoo Lounge nightclub and current Buyology discount store would be torn down ..

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A forgotten corner of industrial land on the outskirts of Liverpool city centre is set to be transformed by a major 1,005 bed student accommodation project.

Bevington Bush and its surrounding streets, which is between Scotland Road and Leeds Street, could be dramatically overhauled by the plans – which include 44 storeys of rooms spread across four blocks.

The new scheme follows an application for a separate project on a neighbouring site that would see 377 residential apartments and studios created across another three blocks.

The latest application, submitted by Bevington Developments Limited, requests permission for four blocks which would be 16, 11, nine and eight storeys tall.

Including a gym, yoga centre and courtyard the project would see a new residential area created on the northern limits of the city centre, with rooms towering above Scotland Road and the Wallasey Tunnel approach route …

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Scottish universities have been getting understandably hot under their gowns about the Higher Education Governance Bill, but another piece of legislation now wending its way through Holyrood has more direct consequences for the sector.

Yesterday, private landlords expressed dismay about the new Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill which they say will make it much more difficult to evict anti-social tenants.

Not so, says the Scottish Government, insisting it gives much-needed security to families amongst the 14 per cent of households which rent privately and will prevent unscrupulous landlords from ramping up bills unreasonably.

Private discussions with government have, I am told, reassured the bigger operators that negative effects will be limited but what has received far less attention are fears universities are going to be hit by an unintended consequence of the new rules.

Tenants will be protected from sudden eviction because tenancies will no longer automatically end on the last date of an agreed rental period and occupants will need to formally sign off the lease for the property to become legally vacant …

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The cross-party London Assembly Housing Committee has written to Boris Johnson asking him to give a helping hand to ordinary families facing daunting accommodation costs for studying in the capital.

London currently has 366,605 students, of whom 67,000 are international. This was estimated to bring in over £5.9 billion to the capital’s economy in 2011/12.

In 2012/13, average student rents were at £157.48, a rise of 26% from 2009/10. Figures also reveal that 57% of all new student accommodation was in four central London Boroughs, something the committee classes as ‘unsustainable’ both in terms of rental prices and land availability.

The Committee has warned the type of student accommodation being built is too focused on catering for an affluent market, often from overseas – and not enough on building accommodation affordable for domestic students.

They have urged the Mayor of London to take action, so ordinary British families can afford to send their children to London universities.

The letter also recommends that as the number of students living in outer London increases, Transport for London (TfL) could make fares for students cheaper.

Tom Copley AM, chair of the Housing Committee, said: “Preserving the social mix of London universities is essential: while we are rightly proud of the fact that people from all around the world want to come to study here, our universities mustn’t become dormitories for the children of the global super-rich ..

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Plans to build a 168-bed accommodation block on campus have been submitted by Edge Hill University.

The Ormskirk institution wants to build the new block on the south west of the campus, near the newly built phase 10 block.

All the bedrooms will be single-study and en-suite and are expected to be ready for the 2016/2017 academic year.

The accommodation is arranged in three L-shape blocks that repeat the modular design and floorplan used for the adjacent Phase 10 courtyard development and in varying combinations throughout the University since 2008.

Each L-shape block contains 56 bedrooms, providing 168 in total.

The accommodation will not be provided with dedicated car parking spaces and in common with all other on-campus residences, students will be prevented from parking a car at the campus under the terms of their tenancy agreement …

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Dandara has revised the proposals following consultation events with members of the public.

The plans now involve the creation of 341 units over 13 storeys, four more units than what was previously proposed.

Only 10 storeys would be visible from Schoolhill, with the others built down to Denburn Road. If given the green light, the development would contain 175 studio flats and 166 en-suite rooms.

A cafe, gym, cinema room, games room and common rooms would also be included in the £20 million scheme.

The cafe would be available for members of the public to use as well as those living within the complex.

The main entrance to the development would be taken from Schoolhill with access for vehicles being taken from Denburn Road …

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