Student Accommodation News (7/12/11)

Here you can find the latest UK student accommodation news headlines for the week ending the 7th December 2011:

Planning Application for Vauxhall Development

2nd December 2011: A property company from Liverpool has submitted a planning application for a huge new building that will provide 572 rooms of student accommodation in London. Downing hope to develop a 32 storey building in Vauxhall in south London, which will house hundreds of rooms of accommodation for international students as well as a gym and a 25-metre swimming pool.

Downing is a specialist in student accommodation and already provides over 6,000 beds throughout the UK in a number of cities including Leeds and Newcastle. Their accommodation houses students from some of the top universities in the UK, though this will be their first development in London.

With thousands of students in the Capital, Downing will be hoping to attract them from top London universities, colleges in London and those on English courses in London.

Plans Develop for New Manchester Campus

5th December 2011: Manchester Metropolitan University is planning five new blocks of student accommodation for its new Birley Fields Campus and is looking for a contractor to design and build them.

After gaining permission for a new £110 million campus in Hulme, just south of Manchester city centre, the university is planning to create 1,200 Manchester student homes on the site. The new accommodation will largely cater for nursing and teaching students, and a significant part of it will be international student accommodation. There will also be a huge five-storey academic building which will house lecture theatres and sports and arts facilities.

Manchester Metropolitan regularly comes in the top 100 in UK university ranking tables and has one of the top business schools in the UK.