UK & Ireland

Cavendish & Gloucester has drawn up proposals to provide purpose-built accommodation for more than 150 students on a brownfield site at Millbrook Road East. The scheme, which aims to ease the shortage of student housing in the city, includes communal spaces, a study area, and a gymnasium.

Liverpool-based firm Downing plans to transform a 5,739 sqm brownfield site in South London into two ten-storey PBSA towers and a commercial development. The scheme has capacity to house up to 434 students.

The 741-bed development at the University of Maryland is the first part of a three-phase project funded through tax-exempt bonds.

Mortgage lender BridgeInvest has invested $30 million into the refinancing of The Rowan, an apartment complex at 1051 Southern Drive marketed toward college students, according to a release from the company.

Hybrid developer and contractor Downing has submitted plans for a 430-bed student accommodation and commercial scheme in South London. The Liverpool-based firm plans to transform a brownfield site at 2 Armoury Way in Wandsworth with two 10-storey towers.

New student housing plans have emerged for a contentious gap site in Glasgow's West End following a hard-won planning consent for residential apartments obtained last year.

Proposals for a student accommodation facility on the site of a Northampton car park have been approved. Proposals involve the construction of a four- and five-storey structure comprising 101 bed spaces.

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.