Derby Road is a mixed-use scheme that will deliver high-quality purpose-built student accommodation adjacent to the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus, within an extensively new landscaped setting.

The three, five and six-storey accommodation buildings provide 700 students beds across the site with communal space on the ground floor and 2,054 sq.m. of flexible floorspace reserved for office/community use.

The project combines architecture and landscape to address context and flood mitigation, successfully knitting together client and local authority aspirations, whilst creating a built form that can be adapted to other residential or hospitality uses in the future.

The scheme has been designed with proposals for air source heat pumps and cooling/heating systems that go beyond Part L, targeting BREEAM Excellent. It also includes public realm for civic use whilst the use classes remain flexible, helping to blur the boundaries between ‘town and gown’.