Work starts on student rooms at ex hospital site

WORK has started on the latest student accommodation scheme in Coventry.

More than 300 student bedrooms will be built on the site of the old listed Coventry and Warwickshire hospital on Stoney Stanton Road.

The hospital first closed 13 years ago and has been left empty ever since.

The new development, for Kier Property, is being built by Clegg Construction as part of a £17.1m contract.

It will be partly a new build and partly a refurbishment with the listed nurses’ home and outpatients clinic undergoing alterations and extensions.

The hospital first opened in 1867 and the nurses’ home and outpatients’ clinic were completed in 1908 and 1909.

They are all that remain of the site, with many of the other buildings destroyed during the Coventry Blitz.

As well as student bedrooms the project will include the creation of a central courtyard and landscaping works

The scheme is set to be completed in the summer of 2020.

This is the fourth student accommodation scheme that Clegg Construction is currently working on which will see over 1,200 rooms delivered at schemes including Sheffield, Southwell and Birmingham.

Simon Blackburn, Clegg Construction Managing Director, said: “We are delighted to have started work on a major student accommodation scheme for Kier Property, which means that we are currently delivering a combined total of over 1,200 student bedrooms across the UK.”