UK & Ireland

Citrus Group, in a joint venture with Galliard Homes, wants to transform Prince Bishops' Place into a development comprising shops, leisure uses, a new public square, student housing and a hotel.

A lost B-listed furniture store in Dundee is to become student accommodation under plans filed by KR Developments and jmarchitects. The former Willison House at 56 Barrack Street is to be replaced by 367 beds in a variety of studio and cluster flats.

Clifford House, Exeter and Scotway House, Glasgow were recently announced as Legal & General’s first direct let student accommodation investments, with Homes for Students selected as the managing partners.

A planning inspector allowed an appeal today against the refusal of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets for a student accommodation scheme in Mile End, London. The scheme includes 106 bedroom units of purpose-built student housing accommodation (PBSA), and commercial space at the ground floor level.

Edinburgh locals have raised their concerns over plans to extend a student accommodation site. Plans to extend the Shrubhill House student accommodation, just off Leith Walk at 8 Middlefield, have been submitted to Edinburgh Council after previous plans to adapt the site were refused in 2023 in relation to daylighting.

Global property consultancy Knight Frank has facilitated the £28.75m sale of a PBSA asset in Newcastle. Situated in the heart of the city’s vibrant Quayside area, the Newcastle PBSA property is an institutional-grade scheme comprising 416 beds.

A high profile student development in the heart of Limerick City, which had been tied up in delays because of appeals, has been granted planning permission by An Bord Pleanála.

Student accommodation developer Fusion Students has submitted a full planning application to redevelop a prominent site in Cardiff into a student accommodation scheme of more than 700 beds. The proposed site at Longcross Court, on 47 Newport Road, is close to the city centre and currently occupied by a red-brick building.

Plans have been approved for a 454-bedroom Bristol PBSA development. It is just 300 metres from the University of Bristol’s £500M Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus. The new Bristol PBSA scheme will help to alleviate the lack of appropriate student accommodation in the South West city.

The Dot Group, the transformational leader in student living, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paddy Allen as the new Chief Executive Officer of Kinetic Capital, its specialist lender in the purpose-built student accommodation sector.