UK & Ireland

The funding agreement with Cain International and Apollo allows construction to advance on the scheme to build a 28-storey student accommodation block and a separate 18-storey co-living homes blocks.

Submitted by Cooper Cromar on behalf of Varsity Developments in May, the proposals would entail the full demolition of a tenement at 70-72A Waterloo Street and partial demolition of the B-listed Distillers’ Building at number 64.

Birmingham-based developer Sama Investment Group has got the planning thumbs up for its 130-bed student scheme on the edge of Coventry city centre.

Fusion’s mixed-use development, on the site of a former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) building in Edinburgh, has been given pre-application approval. Edinburgh City Council signed off the proposal of application notice and approved the proposed consultation.

GSL Index figures show that almost one in five (18%) of students in purpose-built student accommodation in the UK report that they are neurodivergent....

Plans for a new Scottish Opera headquarters and over 700 purpose-built student accommodations (PBSA) beds in Glasgow have been recommended for approval by city planners. The project will go before councillors next week.

Harris Associates and Harris Studios have announced the addition of Sam Raybone as Brand and Creative Lead and Emily Purvis as Marketing Manager. “We are thrilled to welcome Sam and Emily to the team.

The capital was raised after 59,686,950 new shares were offered to the market, representing 9.9% of the strategy. The company’s existing issued ordinary share capital was placed at a share price of 93p, raising £55.5m. Certain directors of the company also participated at this price.

Fresh plans have been unveiled for a new mixed use development on the site of a former Edinburgh Royal Bank of Scotland building. The historic 1970s RBS branch, on Fettes Row, was recently demolished after laying abandoned since 2018.

Build to rent company Get Living has set out revisions to proposals for the west site of the Elephant and Castle Town Centre development.  The project was...