Glasgow’s student accommodation trend continues with Osborne Street bid
A developer has submitted an application regarding its plans to deliver student accommodation in Glasgow city centre.
About this development:
- Authority:Glasgow City
- Type:Residential
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Working with architect TP Bennett, Dominus aims to bring life to the junction of Old Wynd Street and Osborne Street.
A design document submitted with their proposal states: “The proposed development will create transformational change to this cleared brownfield site and contribute towards a vibrant evolving city quarter.
“It will provide high quality student accommodation totalling 211 rooms with an outward-facing amenity space at ground and first floor to create active frontages and a vibrant sense of place along Old Wynd and Osborne Street.”
Planning permission was granted for a 12-storey hotel on the site in 2019, but the developers state: “Since then, the emerging context around the site has undergone substantial evolution, with a number of major schemes, including the King Street development to the south, due to come forward.
“The proposal for student accommodation has followed a reconsideration of the appropriateness of the previous scheme in light of the changes to the surrounding context, as well as Glasgow’s socio-economic repositioning.”
Plans for student accommodation on the opposite corner at Old Wynd were approved in November, while work is underway on student residences at nearby Jocelyn Street.