UK & Ireland

A Welsh college has submitted plans for a 50-bedroom student accommodation building. Coleg Cambria plans to further develop its Llysfasi campus following the completion of a £10m agriculture and education centre. It features a library, classrooms, a climbing wall, laboratories, a coffee shop, meeting spaces, atrium, and wellbeing and HE hubs.

Robertson Construction Central West has completed the £17.7m Clyde Court at Jocelyn Square in the Merchant City district. And now the development has been handed over to operator Homes for Students under its Prestige Student Living brand.

Thousands more students could live in Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) halls under new plans as bosses eye expansion. MMU has unveiled proposals to radically alter its Cambridge Street halls, which are situated near the All Saints Park campus.

PLANNING permission is to be sought for a new multi-storey student accommodation development, which could deliver up to 1,400 bed spaces in Limerick.

One Homes has appointed Walters and Cohen Architects, the renowned British architectural firm celebrated for their award-winning educational projects, including work at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, to lead the design of Pakistan’s first purpose-built student accommodation in Lahore.

Veld Capital has completed the acquisition of Saltwater Place and Mary Parker House, two high-quality, recently built purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) assets in Plymouth, south west England.

A shopping centre in Bristol could soon be demolished and redeveloped into a major mixed-use scheme, with plans including student accommodation and potentially a nightclub.

PCM Property Investment has received planning consent to develop a new purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Stilrling. The redevelopment will raze a former public house on the site.

City planners have permitted a number of changes to the 240-bed student accommodation complex to be built in the carpark of the Westside Shopping Centre.

United Trust Bank (UTB) has appointed Andy Thomson to the role of senior director to develop the lender’s build to rent proposition and explore opportunities in the student accommodation and co-living markets.