UK: Developer Gilltown has lodged proposals to redevelop an office building on a Coventry business park in to PBSA accommodation.
Progress House at Westwood Business Park, which was built in the early 1990s, is a two-storey office building set around an external atrium.
It is currently occupied by the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board, which are due to vacate the building in the near-term. The structure would be demolished as part of the scheme.
Designed by GDL Architecture, plans involve the construction of a part-five, part-six storey facility providing 544 bedrooms formed of 224 studios and 320 units within 58 cluster flats.
Around 4,300 square feet of business and service space would also be provided, alongside 22 car and 200 secure cycle spaces.
A statement from the applicant said: “The proposed development will deliver a building and public realm of exceptional design quality that is appropriate to the character of the building and the surrounding area. The proposals have been designed to reflect and respond to the building’s surrounding context and represents a high-quality development which will provide attractive purpose-built student accommodation to meet the needs of future students.”
