New 800-bed development in Glasgow

September 13th 2023 - Posted by

Unite Students, the UK’s leading owner, manager and developer of student accommodation, today announces that it has entered an option agreement to acquire a new 800-bed development scheme in central Glasgow, subject to planning.

The new development will help address the acute shortage of student accommodation in Glasgow, which is home to three institutions within the UK’s top 75 universities, and increases Unite’s portfolio in the city to 3,000 beds. The Group expects to deliver the scheme as a university partnership with at least half of the beds to be let on a multi-year nominations agreement to a leading university.

The scheme has a total development cost of £95 million and is expected to deliver a yield on cost of around 7.5%. Planning approval is targeted during H1 2024, enabling delivery for the 2026/27 academic year. The Group expects to fund the project from capital recycling through disposals …

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Southwark approves Sellar’s student blocks

July 20th 2023 - Posted by

The London Borough of Southwark has resolved to grant planning permission for a 444-bed student accommodation development on Borough High Street.

King’s Place is being developed by Sellar Property Group, one of the developers behind the nearby Shard.

As well as 444 student beds in a development rising to 11 storeys at its highest, King’s Place will also have 1,850 sqm of flexible work and retail space, including a corner café on Borough High Street, and a new pocket park to be created on Harper Road …

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Massive 2,000 bed Exeter Uni student flats plan approved

June 20th 2023 - Posted by

Plans for a huge student bed development on Streatham Campus for the University of Exeter have been given the go-ahead by the narrowest of margins. It will see the addition of beds for more than 2,000 students despite angry protests from local residents who say their homes will be overlooked.

The 12-strong Exeter City Council planning committee was tied at six votes for and six against at their meeting on Monday night. It forced chairman Cllr Paul Knott (Lab, Exwick) to use his casting vote – and he voted to give the university and developers UPP the green light for development to take place …

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Watkin Jones agrees forward-funding deal on Belfast BTR scheme

June 5th 2023 - Posted by

Watkin Jones and Lacuna Developments have agreed a deal with Legal & General and Clanmil Housing Association to forward-fund the Loft Lines build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast.

The agreed funding amounts to around £155m of the wider £175m development and represents the group’s first build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in Northern Ireland …

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CZWG 12-storey student housing block for Arsenal FC gets go-ahead

May 30th 2023 - Posted by

Islington Council has approved a CZWG-designed 284-room student accommodation block for Arsenal Football Club, close to its Emirates Stadium

The 12-storey building at 45 Hornsey Road in north London was approved at a meeting of the Islington Council planning committee last week (22 May).

The scheme for Ashburton Trading, a subsidiary of Arsenal FC, will provide a mix of 281 studio rooms and cluster flats, of which 35 per cent will be affordable …

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iQ acquires and forward funds 1,209-bed PBSA development adjacent to the University of Warwick

May 25th 2023 - Posted by

iQ Student Accommodation (iQ), one of the UK’s leading providers of student housing, which is 100% owned by funds managed by Blackstone, today announces it has agreed to forward fund Topland Vintage group, one of the largest privately owned investment groups in the UK, on the development of a 1,209-bed student accommodation and co-living campus a stone’s throw from the University of Warwick.

iQ will partner with Topland Vintage Group and McLaren Property, one of the UK’s leading PBSA developers, to deliver the development in two phases, with the first phase expected to complete in 2025 and the second phase following in 2026. Planning consent for the campus was approved in December 2022 and construction is due to start at the end of this year.

Adjacent to the University of Warwick’s campus, the development will comprise 1,078 PBSA beds, 131 co-living beds and 6,000 sq ft of retail space. It will provide best-in-class amenities for residents including study lounges, game lounges, a TV lounge, private dining rooms, a gym and yoga studio …

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Plans approved for Alumno’s Rockingham Street PBSA

April 27th 2023 - Posted by

Alumno Group has been granted planning permission for its Rockingham Street purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development, designed by architects Maccreanor Lavington.

The development is located on a challenging vacant triangle of land at the junction of Rockingham Street and Tiverton Street. It includes three adjacent railway viaduct arches in the London Borough of Southwark. Hopes are that the Brownfield constrained site will help to optimise the wider housing delivery targets in the Borough.

The Rockingham Street development will deliver up to 244 student bedrooms over 24-storeys, with two staircases and 67 sqm of commercial spaces at ground floor level …

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Passivhaus Case Study – West Park, University of Exeter

April 4th 2023 - Posted by

University estates are uniquely placed to deliver decarbonisation through their construction activities. As owners of large and complex estates they face challenges and opportunities in the journey to achieving net zero carbon.

–       Globally, 80% of students want their institution to do more on environment issues.

–       1 in 10 responses to the TimesHigher Education survey stated that the “reputation and commitment to sustainability” of a university is the most important factor for them in deciding where to study

–       As of May 2021, 37 Universities have formally declared a Climate Emergency …

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McLaren Property secures planning consent for £70 million St Gabriel’s student accommodation development, Manchester

March 17th 2023 - Posted by

Manchester City Council today granted a resolution to approve a full planning permission to national developer McLaren Property, for the £70m redevelopment and restoration of St Gabriel’s Chapel and Lodge into new high-quality student accommodation, located in Victoria Park Conservation Area, Rusholme, Manchester.

The restoration of the St Gabriel’s Chapel and Lodge, and associated buildings, designed by SimpsonHaugh, will deliver 319-bed spaces, along with shared amenity space and new characterful courtyards and gardens, for the use of residents …

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Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios creates Passivhaus student housing crescents in Cambridge

December 21st 2022 - Posted by

Architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has created a series of crescent-shaped student housing blocks with a CLT structure for King’s College at the University of Cambridge.

Called Stephen Taylor Court, the blocks contain 84 homes for King’s College’s graduate students and fellows that were designed to Passivhaus standards and to have as low a carbon impact as possible.

“Due to the considered material choice, prioritising low-embodied carbon materials, reuse of existing materials, local sourcing and targeting recycled content, and accounting for carbon sequestered in the cross-laminated timber, the project has negative embodied carbon on completion as more carbon has been sequestered in its production than emitted,” Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios partner Hugo Marrack told Dezeen …

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