UK & Ireland

Huge plans have been put to Birmingham City Council to transform a former supermarket site into two new apartment blocks for more than 800 students.

The development arm of Bouygues UK (Linkcity), working in consortium with Equitix, will provide investment and develop plans for the build. The new accommodation will be positioned behind the Tate Modern art gallery, and will provide up to 2,000 new student rooms.

The £120m scheme, which will also include 19 affordable homes, will be built at Alfreton Road,  just a 13-minute walk from the Nottingham Trent University campus.

Charitable organisation and student accommodation centre ISH announces that it is set to develop a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in partnership with property development specialist HG Living at Kennington Lane in Vauxhall.

Fife Council's North East Fife planning committee unanimously approved the major plans from St Andrews University on Wednesday afternoon. The new student halls will be built on the site of Albany Park, the outdated 1970s accommodation at East Sands which was demolished in 2020, and they will provide a total of 703 bedrooms.

Manner, the London-based development group, has lodged plans to build a 36-storey, purpose-built student accommodation tower at the derelict Hotspur Press site in central Manchester.

Investec Real Estate has announced a £15.6m loan to Moorfield Group, a UK-focused real estate fund manager, for the development of a 293-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Lincoln.

A joint venture partnership has lodged plans for a student accommodation development of more than 800 units on the site of a former Sainsbury's in Birmingham.

A developer has secured planning permission to build an 11 storey student accommodation scheme on the site of a well-known Belfast night venue. FMN Properties Ltd is proposing 201 student units on the site of Filthy McNastys on the Dublin Road.

Plans to turn a disused mill building in the New Basford area of Nottingham into a 136-bedroom student accommodation scheme have been revealed. Dave Landa of JGM Limited has submitted the plans for 490 Radford Road.