Leicestershire developer plans 9-storey Derby student accommodation block

A Loughborough-based developer has submitted plans to build a 9-storey block of student flats in Derby which will house 173 studio apartments.

The scheme at 18 Agard Street in the city centre, is being brought forward by GCLP – a firm which has ties with Nicholas Humphreys Estate Agents, which has offices across the East Midlands and wider UK. The firm has managed over 3,000 student properties in the East Midlands alone.

If the plans are approved, a vacant 2-storey light industrial building currently on the site will be demolished and the new scheme, in the Friar Gate area of the city, developed.

A design and access statement for the scheme reads: “The character and appearance of the Friar Gate Conservation Area will be preserved and enhanced by the replacement of a poor quality building with a well-designed building that responds to the emerging reinvention of Agard Street for the 21st Century.”

The news comes just months after Godwin Developments bought an adjacent site in Derby’s University Quarter.

36 Agard Street is an office building with a development site currently providing short-term car parking.