East Marketgait student accommodation plans submitted to Dundee City Council

Gylemuir Limited has submitted plans for new student accommodation near East Marketgait to Dundee City Council.The application includes plans to convert land on Brown Street into a set of new, state-of-the-art student halls.The site is home to a former mill building which Gylemuir Limited hope to replace with a 361-bed block. The developers also plan to use the ground floor of the building as a retail area, with places for eating and shopping. The plans would provide the same commercial floor space currently occupied by four existing tenants.The seven-storey building has also been designed to retain the mill’s traditional single-storey facade and features on-site storage for bicycles, as well as outside study areas on the first and fifth floors. The plans also include parking for electric cars, The Evening Telegraph reports.