Liverpool Uni plans a further 1,200 student rooms

THE University of Liverpool is planning to ramp up student accommodation in the coming years.

It wants a further 1,200 en-suite rooms to be available to its students by 2017.

It already has 4,000 and developers are pushing ahead with new schemes. OCON is building a further 1,200 rooms and Worthington Group submitted plans for 620 last week.

In a tender document the university said it was seeking a contractor who could deliver the rooms at either one location, or a number of sites, within three-and-a-half miles of the University Foundation Building on Brownlow Hill.

It states: “The university is looking at candidates who have sites available or can demonstrate an ability to source such sites within the University’s programme and are able to finance, design (with or without the University’s involvement) build and operate such accommodation, although all other models to provide the accommodation required by the University, may be considered.

“The rooms will need to be made available over the period 2014 through to 2017. It is anticipated the requirement will be around 300/400 rooms per year will come on stream, until the full compliment of 1,200 is achieved, but the candidate must be flexible to provide development phasing, if required which could enable the University to take a higher or lower figure per year, if so required.”