Hodgson Elkington - General Development - Lincoln, Park Street

Date: 07 Dec 2000

Work has started on a £5.2 million student accommodation development in Lincoln which will provide housing for almost 300 students in the city centre.

The development will be on a 3/4 acre site at Park Street formerly occupied by William Wright builders and will provide 56 self-contained flats comprising 294 study bedrooms, say chartered surveyors, Hodgson Elkington, who are agents for the vendors.

Work is underway and the fast track project by Nottingham based contractors, Landmere Developments, will be completed by August 2001, confirmed Andrew Ballam, chief executive of Leicester based
developers, The Riverside Group.

"Lincoln City Council put in a significant amount of time and effort into the initial stages of this development and the Economic Development Unit's high quality, proactive approach allowed the project to proceed smoothly," said Mr Ballam.

"This is a major city centre development which has been prompted by the expansion of the university, and which will help ease the pressure for student accommodation in other parts of the city like the Carholme area," said Stephen Bradford, partner at
Hodgson Elkington.

Architects for the development are Richard Galey & Partners of The Old School, Loughborough Road, Leicester.

"I am very pleased to see this development proceeding so well. It is a good example of sustainable development of a brownfield site and fits in well with the Council's policy of developing sustainable non residential sites for student accommodation,"
said Councillor Neil Murray, chairman of Lincoln City Council's Economic Development.

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