UK & Ireland

The University of Chichester is inviting local residents to view plans for high-quality new student accommodation on its Chichester and Bognor Regis campuses later this month.

Proposals have come forward for the demolition of a Leeds shopping centre to make way for a mixed-use development of commercial units and student accommodation.

Property website React News revealed that sister company McLaren Property and its partner Topland are close to securing a £160m funding deal with investment giant Blackstone for the latest phases of The Oaks campus.

LaSalle Investment Management’s European real estate debt arm has provided Greystar with a £130m (€147m) green loan facility to help fund the development of a UK student housing asset.

Vita Group has published plans for new student accommodation and social housing near Waverley Station. New Waverley is a £240m regeneration project in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town.

Morgan Sindall Construction has now completed enabling works at Oxford Brookes’ Clive Booth Student Village, next to the Headington campus. The contractor was appointed via the Southern Construction framework to add 515 bedrooms across four new buildings.

Infrastructure manager DIF Capital Partners is acquiring a portfolio of eight UK student accommodation assets for its global infrastructure fund.

A stalled project to build three towers near Piccadilly Station is set to finally be finished - with major changes - three years after construction ground to a halt. New planning documents now show developer IQ Student Accommodation has revised its proposals, focusing solely on the university market.

The final phase of a new student accommodation building in Birmingham City Centre has been submitted to planners. Birmingham-based developer Volume Property has proposed a further 220-bed development to its Volume Works project.

The university has applied for planning permission to provide student accommodation on the upper floors of the Park Point building on the Dublin Road. The lower floors of the building are currently home to the Travel Lodge hotel but the upper levels have been vacant for a number of years.