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Plans to demolish a derelict cinema in Nottingham and replace it with student flats have been given the green light. Developer Zen Nottingham Limited will be knocking down the former cinema building, on Queen’s Road, to make way for a new six to nine-storey tower block.

ASX-listed construction giant Lendlease and Australia’s largest owner-operator of student housing, Scape, have received final approval for their A$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) transformation of Queen Victoria Market in central Melbourne.

Global real estate investment manager Landmark Properties has appointed Alex Katsnelson as senior director of European investment as it continues to expand into the region.

Core Spaces has announced its first-ever project in Raleigh, North Carolina — Hub Raleigh, a 2,195-bed student housing property underway near the North Carolina State University main campus, according to a news release shared with Multifamily Dive.

The proposed site is located just opposite the University of Central Lancashire’s Burnley Campus, between Princess Way and Stanhope Street, minutes away from the town centre and railway station.

A planning application to convert Coverdale House on East Parade – a Leeds office building – into a PBSA schemes has been approved by Leeds City Council. Malik Group Holdings Ltd (MGHL) submitted the planning application earlier this year.

More student accommodation is planned for a former police station in Stoke-on-Trent. Planning permission has already been granted to transform Hanley Police Station, on Bethesda Street, into 161 units of student accommodation, but a new application has been submitted which proposes 218 units.

Residential for rent developer and manager Watkin Jones Group will regenerate the brownfield site by demolishing the existing former HMRC building on India Street and partially retaining the existing concrete frame.

Plans for a new 870-bedroom purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme at a location next to Belfast’s Grand Central Station transport hub have been unveiled by Elkstone.

IQ, the Blackstone-backed student living specialist, has the go-ahead to deliver a two-block scheme topping out at 12 storeys on the Hedley House site. Newcastle City Council’s planning committee resolved to grant permission for the project at its meeting on Friday.