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Canongate site goes full circle with return of student accommodation plans

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The developers behind a consented office scheme in Edinburgh’s Old Town have reworked their plans to seek permission for a student residential project instead.Canongate site goes full circle with return of student accommodation plansSummix Capital gained planning permission for the development of a new office project at 179 Canongate in March 2020, having withdrawn student housing proposals in 2018 and 2019. It then put the site up for sale the following August.The company has now teamed up with S.Harrison and 3DReid Architects for the redesign of the former New Street Gasworks, which now aims to deliver 76 studio bedrooms.