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Meadowbank residential and student accommodation plans unveiled

Source: https://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/category/news

Artisan Real Estate UK and Unite Students have progressed plans for a mixed development of housing and student accommodation in the Meadowbank area of Edinburgh.Student accommodation provider Unite announced this week it has exchanged contracts to acquire a new 300-bed development site on the Abbeyhill Industrial Estate in Abbey Lane, which forms part of a wider mixed-use redevelopment.Artisan, which bought the site in 2016, intends to build 66 homes, some of them classed as affordable, retail units and a landscaped courtyard.Unite is targeting delivery of the direct-let development for the 2023/24 academic year however, subject to planning consent, this timetable may be accelerated.