Plan for The Grattan at Great Victoria Street is in the advanced stage of consultation
Details of the latest plan for a 17 storey student accommodation block at Great Victoria Street are out to consultation before they will go to Belfast City Council for application.
Fanum House was formerly the Belfast headquarters for newspapers and media including the Irish Times, RTE and Sky. The construction phase of the project is expected to generate 790 jobs and £48 million in the local economy. Belfast City Airport have said: “The proposed building will infringe the Belfast City Airport obstacle limitation surfaces by approximately 5.4metres and any cranes used in construction are likely to infringe by a greater degree.”
Student blocks only house a quarter of the student population of Belfast. To bring the full-time student to bed ratio down to 1.5, for students requiring term time accommodation nearly 5,700 new beds will be needed based on 2021/22 student numbers. “However, it is unclear to what extent the existing pipeline of PBMSA developments, including the planning applications currently before the council for consideration, will meet the existing demand. But even if all current and proposed developments are delivered in full, the likely bed ratio of PBMSA bed spaces to full time students is likely to remain broadly comparable with other university cities elsewhere in the UK.
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