August 30 2023

Dominus has become the latest developer to switch out plans for a hotel in favour of student housing as demand for the sector sweeps across Glasgow.

Reworking an existing approval by Urban Innovations architects TP Bennett is in the early stages of developing a design that promises to reanimate the streetscape of Old Wynd and Osborne Street as part of the ongoing denification of the area.

Shadowing another recently submitted student block the latest addition to the St Enoch East site would match the scale of planned development on the King Street car park.

In a statement, the applicant wrote: "... we previously secured planning permission at this site in 2019. That was for a proposed hotel. We recognise that the needs of the city have changed since then, as has our own business. We are now proposing professionally managed purpose-built student accommodation."

A planning application is expected to be lodged in October.  

6 Comments

#1 Posted by bob ra builder on 30 Aug 2023 at 13:16 PM

as student numbers have now peaked lets have a poll to see if this will get built.
or anything on this site ever?

#2 Posted by Whispering Andy on 30 Aug 2023 at 14:48 PM

Whisper it........but there's a massive under-provision of student beds in Glasgow, so I'm pretty confident if the planners are happy then this will go ahead - as will the majority of the student halls we've seen on here recently.

#3 Posted by Graeme McCormick on 30 Aug 2023 at 15:11 PM

Can they plant some trees to hide these truly dreadful streetscapes?

#4 Posted by Bob ra Builder on 31 Aug 2023 at 06:12 AM

#2 that's partly true but with the huge drop off in overseas students, who else can afford to pay the fees for these lifestyle dorms?

#5 Posted by Whispering Andy on 31 Aug 2023 at 12:21 PM

Whisper it........but if there's a huge drop off in overseas students any time soon, there will be a lot of squeeky bottoms in Scot Gov and the Universities. These guys fund the free tuition of Scottish students.

#6 Posted by Mick on 31 Aug 2023 at 14:48 PM

I’m not an architect but these mock up graffix never tell me anything. And is the template of one week student accommodation, next week a hotel, really anyway to realise urban planning on a more ambitious scale?

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