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Stalled Partick apartments to make way for student housing

Stalled Partick apartments to make way for student housing

January 20 2025

A student housing developer has swooped on a stalled mainstream residential development in Partick to create purpose-built accommodation for the education sector.

Primus and ADP Architecture will pick up where Titan Homes left off with alternative accommodation plans for the brownfield site at 18-20 Meadow Road. The car-free block will include communal dining and games areas as well as green spaces.

In a consultation statement, Primus wrote: "The site features partially built structures because the company in charge of a previous development project, approved in 2016, went into administration after starting work in 2018. Since then the site has lain derelict and in poor condition."

More details will be shared at a public consultation held tomorrow at Partick Free Church between 15:00 and 19:00.

A planning application will follow by May 2025.

7 Comments

#1 Posted by Lovely on 20 Jan 2025 at 17:15 PM

These student pods on still on drawing boards everywhere. Who are they for?

#2 Posted by Sven on 20 Jan 2025 at 21:13 PM

Id not put money into student accommodation that’s not built. A raft of universities are reporting large deficits as student numbers are down, and demographics mean this is a permanent change. These flats are too far away from the university and I feel going to be a hard to let.

#3 Posted by Paul on 20 Jan 2025 at 23:29 PM

Number 2 utter nonsense, i used to live behind the cricket pitch at Fortrose street and had friends who lived in the converted fire station across the road from this new development. It is a 15 - 20 min walk to the edge of Glasgow in campus, or a 5 min walk to Partick station if you are too lazy to walk to Glasgow Uni or you need to take a ten min train or underground to Strathclyde or Caley…..demand numbers are up for debate, it’s handiness for students is not…

#4 Posted by Sven on 21 Jan 2025 at 08:09 AM

@3: you are out of date. Demean was up for Covid and now the market is dead. Dundee University has a deficit of £30m, Abertay posted a £575,00 deficit “due to drop in students”, Aberdeen is planning £10m in cuts. The sector is shirking fast and won’t recover: the demographics of China alone show it shrinking by 50% in 40 years. You are sadly extremely out of product with today. The student market is dying, the location given this stinks (price falls close make this a white elephant). Go feel free to fact check over saying “nonsense”, you are just stuck in 2021 and don’t see the rapid change in the world and de-globalisation.

#5 Posted by "El" on 21 Jan 2025 at 13:47 PM

@Sven
I think you have missed the point of @Paul's post.
His primary stance is that he disagrees with your assertion that proximity is an issue. He is less specific on demand, as you will see if you read his post again.