UK: A brownfield site on Exeter’s Summerland Street will be converted in to 164 coliving units if a new planning application is granted.
McLaren (Exeter) Limited plans to convert the site, which is currently the Yonk Asian foods and Sai Kung supermarket.
The development will provide self-contained studios, with leases of three to 24 months, each providing distinctive kitchen, living, and sleeping spaces, alongside a private shower room. The site is within the Grecian Regeneration Area, part of the city that Exeter City Council has identified for regeneration.
Amenities will include a cinema room, a large entertaining kitchen, coworking space, a gym and laundry facilities as well as outdoor amenity space on a communal roof terrace. The development would provide 20 per cent affordable homes, targeted at local key workers.
“The provision of approximately 164 self-contained co-living apartments in this city centre location would provide a range of economic benefits,” a statement from the developers said. “This includes encouraging the retention of skilled graduates in Exeter; the generation of additional consistent footfall helping the retention of expenditure in the City; and positive inward investment to regenerate this tired site.
“The city centre location of the development will place its residents within walking distance of all essential shops and amenities, increasing expenditure and footfall in the area, as well as enabling extensive access to all forms of public transport including Exeter Central station to the West and St James Park station to the North,” it added.
McLaren is presenting more detail on the proposals is inviting feedback from the community at a drop-in session on-site on Friday 3 March from 11am to 4pm.
In August last year a plan to convert a former police station in Exeter in to PBSA and coliving accommodation was approved.
