Inehaze plans for new Renfrew Street student flats
THE student housing market is booming in Glasgow, as businesses cash in on the demand for university accommodation.
Planning permission has been granted to property and estate management firm, Inehaze Ltd., for the construction of student halls on Garnethill’s Renfrew Street.
The Inehaze plans were approved just months after the Gallery Apartments student accommodation were completed on Port Dundas Place, adding to the area’s Victoria Halls, and Buchanan View student flats, which are all within a one-mile radius of one another.
Richard Glassey, research assistant at Glasgow University, and secretary of Garnethill’s community council said: “The wider story here is a strategy used by most developers to turn a profit on a site by turning it into high density, low quality student accommodation, as the private accommodation market has completely stalled.
“Garnethill is a microcosm of this: at one end, the Hill Street Almandine Apartments have stopped development due to a complete lack of private home-owner demand, leaving a skeleton building on what was once a pleasant skyline.
“On the other end student accommodation is being thrown up on any available spot despite the departure from the City Plan guidance on conservation areas and other regulations.”
The Inehaze plans were originally rejected in May 2010, but granted after a second application with revisions in 2011, despite 115 letters of objection and two petitions against the development.
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