Student accommodation giant reveals plans for major city scheme

How the new Unite building will look on a site next to the University of Nottingham's Jubilee campus after planning committee voted it through

Student accommodation giant Unite has revealed plans to redevelop a huge site on Derby Road in Lenton.

Designed by Broadway Malyan, the scheme, which will be next to the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee campus, will house 690 students across a 3-, 5- and 6-storey building, along with almost 20,000 sq ft of civic space, which will include collaboration spaces, reception and student welfare facilities; laundry, cycle stores and refuse storage.

The redevelopment will also retain the adjacent car dealerships on the site. Jaguar has a new purpose-built showroom elsewhere in the city so will move out of its site, allowing Toyota/Lexus to reappropriate that building. As a result it is proposed to remove the Toyota and Lexus garages to make way for the new development.

A statement from ROK Planning said: “The development meets a strategically identified need in an appropriate and sustainable area, delivering well designed and high-quality student bedspaces and flexible commercial floorspace which will create jobs contribute to the economy, improve access to open space, and encourage sustainable forms of transport. The development will also be highly sustainable, energy efficient, and ecologically beneficial.”

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