Plans for big housing development on the doorstep of the University of Sheffield are in line for council approval next week.
They include accommodation for 287 students as part of a complex due to be built between between Broad Lane and Garden Street on the edge of the city centre.
One hundred apartments are also envisaged, alongside offices and shops …
Plans have been handed in to turn former council offices at the heart of Southampton into student flats.
Cash-strapped city council chiefs have agreed the sell-off of Marland House to raise funds and save maintenance costs.
Now a developer has brought forward plans to turn the nine-storey city centre building into a 100-flat student development …
The writing is on the wall for Swansea lettering caught in the sights of a grammatical campaigner.
Councillor Ioan Richard has labelled the owners of a new block of student flats on New Cut Road near the city centre as “clowns” after spotting a huge sign bearing ‘St Davids’ on the side of the building.
The former teacher explained: “As a Welshman I am, proud of our patron saint — St David — and maybe heartened to know we either have more than one patron saint or just stubborn clowns who have had no grammar teaching. St Davids means there are more than one St David …
We’ve become used to seeing them spring up on a regular basis in the city centre and Clifton of late. But now student flats could be built in an inner city suburb not regarded as a hub for university goers – St Paul’s.
There are plans to create a five-storey block of accommodation for 285 students in Dean Street, a stone’s throw from Portland Square.
The move follows a flurry of planning applications for student digs in the city centre fuelled by increasing numbers at the city’s two universities …
The University of Stirling is opening new student accommodation in time for the autumn semester, marking the completion of the second phase of the University’s £40 million pound residences redevelopment project.
The new accommodation, Beech Court, will welcome students from Saturday 13 September, the beginning of the University’s Freshers Week.
Beech Court will provide high-quality accommodation for 300 students and features well-designed study bedrooms, spacious kitchens with dining space, increased social space and better connections to the external landscape …
City planners have received eight applications for student accommodation from a range of developers.
Two have applied for full planning permission and six have tendered advance notice they plan to lodge applications. Six are regarded as major or national applications which require the developer to consult with the public.
Applications for student flats only fall into this category if the site is at least two hectares in size. That means the developments would cover a total area equivalent to 18 football pitches …
Hope Street Properties has submitted an application to Liverpool City Council for the development of 52 studio apartments on Fleet Street.
The proposed seven-storey student accommodation scheme is for a brownfield site at 16 Fleet Street.
The plans include commercial space in the basement and ground floor of the block …
One of the largest student accommodation management and building firms in the country, Unite Group, have been given the green light by Portsmouth Council for a landmark student property in Greetham Street, Portsmouth.
The £42m development will house around 836 students and completion is anticipated in time for the 2016/17 academic year.
The site will occupy the current unused Greetham Street carpark and Dugald Drummond House, which will be cleared for the development …
Carlisle’s former Central Clinic looks set to become accommodation for up to 59 students.
Chartered accountant Ian Lancaster acquired the building, in Victoria Place in the city centre, at auction for £370,000 in February.
He has tabled a planning application through his company, Devonshire Lodge, to convert it into high-specification student residences …
Galiford Try has completed Hughenden Park Student Village building at Buckinghamshire New Uni.
Galiford Try has handed over a completed student accommodation building at Buckinghamshire New University which will result in the university opening this month with an additional 25% accommodation available.
Buckinghamshire New Uni took position of the new student accommodation building which forms part of Hughenden Park Student Village in High Wycombe at an office ceremony on Wednesday …
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