Work has got underway on a development on the Lower Bristol Road in Bath that will provide more than 100 rooms of student accommodation as well as commercial space.
The Hollis Building development | Image © Real / Alumno Group
Bristol-based construction and development company Real has started work on the Hollis Building for developer Alumno Group.
The £12.6 million project will see the creation of 120 rooms of Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) across four storeys, with bespoke commercial space on the ground floor.
The building has been designed by Bristol practice AWW Architects and features 5, 7 and 10 bed cluster flats and studios.
There will be a laundry room on the first floor and three accessible studio flats as well as communal spaces, including a common room on the first floor facing the river and an external roof terrace on the fourth floor.
The development will feature photovoltaics panels (PV) on the roof with electric heating plus a living wall on the north elevation, green roofs, bird and bat boxes and new planting on the Lower Bristol Road.
The Hollis Building is set for completion in August 2024.
The development is Real’s second student accommodation project in Bath, having completed work on the nearby 144-bed North Parade accommodation building in September 2022.
David Campbell, Founder & Managing Director of Alumno, commented: “We are delighted to be commencing work with Real on this exciting project in Bath, a city that we have had long held ambitions to work in.
“We are sure that by working in close partnership with Real, the Hollis building will offer students studying in Bath a first-class housing option at a time of great demand and need.”
Alan Hope, Regional Director for Real in the South West added: “The Hollis Building is an exciting project, in a prime location and with an excellent design, and we are delighted to have started the project and to be working with the Alumno team.
“Our project team have a proven track record of success having delivered a student accommodation project just 15 minutes from the Hollis Building, and I look forward to watching them take on the challenge of this new and exciting scheme.”
Permission for the development was granted in December 2021, following a number of previously refused schemes for the Jubilee Centre site.
