Work starts on 270

The project is one of several major student accommodation builds currently underway in Nottingham

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Building work has officially started on a 271-bed student accommodation block at a former Argos site in Nottingham. Set to open in time for the academic year starting next September, Bromley Place will incorporate an existing three-storey Victorian building at its site in Lower Parliament Street.

The site is being developed by Unite Students, a major student accommodation provider which is also behind projects such as the 700-bed Morriss House on Derby Road, which is due to be finished in time for this September. The latest £34 million development will be the company's first new-build aimed exclusively at postgraduate students.

Facilities will include brand new bathroom pods and study space including a roof terrace. Unite Students also claims the latest development will have the lowest embodied carbon of any of its current and recent projects.

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A low-carbon cement substitute, containing ground granulated blast furnace slag, is being used during the build. Low energy LED lighting and high efficiency heating and cooling systems are also being used at the Bromley Place development.

Tom Brewerton, the group development director at Unite Students, said: "We look forward to welcoming students in the 2024/25 academic year. Once open, Unite Students will be able to cater for the increased number of postgraduate students seeking to study in the vibrant city of Nottingham attending the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University."

Several major student accommodation builds are currently underway across Nottingham, with around 56,000 students expected to need accommodation in the city by September 2025. Nottingham City Council said earlier in the year that it wanted to stop some areas being "dominated" by student accommodation, creating more purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), rather than relying on HMOs.