UK & Ireland

OXWED, the joint venture between Nuffield College and Oxford City Council, has put forward a planning application for the regeneration of the Oxpens site.

Vita Group has secured a £68.7m green loan from LaSalle Investment Management to finance the delivery of Vita Student Gough Street – a new 540-bedroom PBSA scheme in central Birmingham.

Period Projects Limited has submitted proposals to Southampton City Council for a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in the conurbation. The proposed redevelopment is located on an industrial site in the Southampton suburbs at 346, 350 and 352 Burgess Road in Swaythling.

Several existing buildings have already been demolished on the site, whilst numerous older and architecturally interesting elements have been retained and will be sympathetically incorporated into the new scheme, which will comprise 76 studio rooms.

Following the opening of its new campus in September 2023, Scotland’s only theatre school accredited by the Council of Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre (CDDT) – The Scottish Institute – has announced that it is looking for a strategic partner to develop up to 200 PBSA apartments.

Plans from Glasgow University to build student housing on a west end car park are to go on display to the public. The university is looking into building a block of flats on Lillybank Gardens, near Hillhead Subway Station.

Close Brothers Property Finance, part of Close Brothers Group plc, announces the appointment of Chiara Caldwell (née Zuccon) to the newly created role of Managing Director of Structured Finance, to spearhead business growth across Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) and Build to Rent (BTR).

Plans for new student blocks in Birmingham’s Gun Quarter have been recommended for approval despite concern over the proposed development’s location.

The scheme, a rejig of an 872-bed hotel designed by the practice and approved by Lambeth Council two years ago, is the latest in a series of attempts by a range of practices to redevelop the 0.19ha plot on the Thames, just north of Vauxhall bus and tube station.

A new bid is being made to build student flats on the site of Edinburgh's Murrayfield Sports Bar after a previous attempt was rejected last year.