UK & Ireland

Edinburgh-based Optimal Student has announced that its proposals to develop its £2.7m Braemar House purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development have been approved. Optimal Student submitted the PBSA plans for the former office building site at 267 Union Street in Aberdeen last year.

Developer SAV Group have announced that planning has been granted to alter its existing Louise House PBSA development in Victoria, London. Located on 33 Medway Street, Louise House is an unlisted building at the junction with Arneway Street.

Bellmount Developments have been granted planning permission for a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Cork City, Ireland. The plans were submitted by Bellmount Developments Limited in August 2022, but was held up due to a backlog of applications.

Comprising 383 beds across eight blocks, Orlando Village is being marketed by Allsop. The Bolton student scheme is situated of Thynne Street in the town centre and is “the University of Bolton’s only approved accommodation for a further 15 years”, according to Allsop.

Urbium Capital, a London-based real estate private equity firm, has announced the successful first close of its Urbium Living Fund I, a UK residential real estate strategy focused on delivering high-quality purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and senior living assets.

Plans have been put forward to transform a listed building in Glasgow city centre into student accommodation. The vacant B-listed building at 250 Vincent Street, located at the top of Blythswood Hill, could be turned into 146 bedrooms, with 150 available beds if the proposals submitted to Glasgow City Council are approved.

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Developer Watkin Jones is considering an area of brownfield land, near Bristol Temple Meads station, for a 374-bed PBSA scheme. The approx 0.3087 ha brownfield site is a former ATS tyre centre and is within a short walk of the new £300m University of Bristol Temple Quarter enterprise campus.

A planning application seeking permission to develop more than 200 student bedspaces near UCC has been green-lit by An Bord Pleanála. The decision comes more than two years after the application was lodged as the planning board works to clear a backlog of cases.

A Beer Factory in Bristol could be turned into a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme, to include accommodation for 103 students alongside shops and workspace. The company has outgrown the premises and is moving its brewing operations and its tap room to another site.