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A main contractor has been appointed by Fusion Group to build a student accommodation development in Birmingham featuring 622 beds in blocks rising to 17 storeys.

Birmingham is the largest regional university town with more than 84,000 full-time students studying at the city’s nine universities.

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Jess started looking for her second-year accommodation during her first term at Birmingham City University because of the competition for properties.

The development was intended to provide accommodation for nearly 2,000 students at the nearby Aston University and Birmingham City University, the application said.

A decision is due to be made on a purpose-built student accommodation building providing almost 320 bedspaces after it was deferred at a previous planning meeting.

But in cities like Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Coventry, the proliferation of purpose-built student accommodation can sometimes cause tension between universities and local communities.

Birmingham is a top-tier University city where over 50,000 students currently seek accommodation in a city with provision of only 27,500 PBSA beds, and less than 10,000 new beds currently ...