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Hospitality company Whitbread has announced that its new development in Norwich city centre will provide a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) element if plans are given the go-ahead. The plans are set to deliver two large blocks that will comprise 491 PBSA rooms.

Construction is set to begin on a 1,000-bed student accommodation complex at The University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus. The $285 million development in Walcott Street has been enabled through a Queensland Treasury Corporation loan with building to start in October.

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Greystar Real Estate Partners broke ground on a two-building student housing development at Merrimack College. The project, a result of a public-private partnership, is composed of 540 beds on the school’s North Andover, MA campus.

Developer Sama Investment Group has acquired two purpose-built student accommodation schemes in Yorkshire and the West Midlands.

Watkin Jones, the UK’s leading developer and manager of residential for rent, is pleased to announce that the Group recently practically completed on a 335-bed purpose-built student accommodation (‘PBSA’) scheme called The Brook, situated in Lower Bristol Road in Bath.

Art-Invest Real Estate is overhauling one of its planned buildings at Dockside Canada Water, SE16, switching from an office-led proposal to PBSA. The new strategy will include 730 PBSA beds and 75 affordable homes.

Plans have been formally submitted for a new 307-unit student accommodation development close to the Ulster University’s Magee campus in Derry. The property and investment arm of Co Tyrone fuel group LCC is behind the Chandler Court project on Strand Road.

Developer Cassidy Group Ltd has brought the 0.41 acre / 18,049 sq ft Chainey Place freehold development site to market, which benefits from dual planning permission to deliver a new PBSA scheme – or Build to Rent scheme – in Nottingham.

Cole Waterhouse has launched a public consultation on its plans for Trafford Wharf in Greater Manchester, a mixed-use development incorporating purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), Build to Rent, a new education facility with teaching space, offices and a range of student amenities.