UK & Ireland

Bristol-based construction and development company Real has started work on the Hollis Building for developer Alumno Group. The £12.6 million project will see the creation of 120 rooms of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) across four storeys, with bespoke commercial space on the ground floor.

Manchester City Council gave its approval to the revised iQ Student Accommodation-backed scheme last week (27 July) for a 38,350m2 development on Echo Street, Manchester, providing 1,224 student rooms. The 0.49ha site will be made up of three 16, 21 and 27-storey towers with 11 and 15-storey linked buildings close to Manchester Piccadilly station and the North Campus of the University of Manchester.

A report recently released into the UK student accommodation market highlights the challenges that face both designers and marketers of student accommodation in meeting...

A former Lincoln police station dubbed the Ryvita building is expected to be sold "in the coming months", says the crime commissioner. Constructed in 1973 to a design which resembles the popular rye bread, it closed in 2019 and police relocated to a new station in South Park. Key worker flats, offices and student accommodation had previously been suggested as possible future uses.

The new development will provide 169 studio bedrooms with best-in-class facilities to serve the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde, where there is a chronic shortage of purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA).

David Tymms has joined Housemates, which focuses on delivering innovative and tech-driven solutions so students can easily find and book a place to live.

Building work has officially started on a 271-bed student accommodation block at a former Argos site in Nottingham. Set to open in time for the academic year starting next September, Bromley Place will incorporate an existing three-storey Victorian building at its site in Lower Parliament Street.

Uliving, the student accommodation brand of Bouygues company Linkcity UK, expects to deliver a total of 1,032 bedsits across the University of Chichester’s two campuses in Bognor Regis and Chichester.

Plans for a large student accommodation block in South Shields have been submitted to council development chiefs, with the public invited to have their say.

Unite Students, the UK’s largest provider of student accommodation, has started building one of its greenest ever purpose-built student accommodation properties.