{"id":212847,"date":"2025-06-25T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212847\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:04:28","slug":"student-flats-bring-a-splash-of-colour-to-a-brownfield-edinburgh-site-june-2025-news-architecture-in-profile-the-building-environment-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/212847\/","title":{"rendered":"Student flats bring a splash of colour to a brownfield Edinburgh site : June 2025 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 25 2025<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/images\/news\/news_11517.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-urban noopener\" title=\"Student flats bring a splash of colour to a brownfield Edinburgh site\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/81a187d406c64b77274f6403ea1029ce.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Student flats bring a splash of colour to a brownfield Edinburgh site\" title=\"Student flats bring a splash of colour to a brownfield Edinburgh site\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>A plan for new student accommodation at 36 Russell Road, Edinburgh, has entered a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montagu-evans.co.uk\/publicconsultati on-russell-road-pbsa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second consultation round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ardent Group is preparing the ground for a formal planning application next month when it will file formal plans for the brownfield west end site.<\/p>\n<p>Working with 7N Architects the team will replace the former builders&#8217; yard with an L-plan block that activates the street and frames a tiered rear garden. An open ground floor will permit through views from Russell Road directly to the garden.<\/p>\n<p>Employing a setback green and blue roof to break down its massing the 7-storey project will offer 182-bed spaces arranged as cluster flats of 6-8 en-suite bedrooms around a shared living, kitchen and dining space. The top storey is reserved for single occupancy studio rooms with a private kitchenette.<\/p>\n<p>A splash of colour will activate the blank gable, pending the adjoining development, which will bear the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanrealm.com\/news\/11479\/Developers_alight_on_a_forgotten_corner_of_west_Edinburgh.html \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russell Yards<\/a> branding.<\/p>\n<p>A start on site could be made in January 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 25 2025 A plan for new student accommodation at 36 Russell Road, Edinburgh, has entered a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[7530,748,1102,4884,44538,12,712,84703,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-212847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-architecture-in-the-uk","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-june-2025","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-student-flats-bring-a-splash-of-colour-to-a-brownfield-edinburgh-site","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114743441300931967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}