{"id":4378,"date":"2019-03-27T08:01:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2019-03-27T08:01:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:01:32","slug":"first-brighton-build-to-rent-scheme-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/first-brighton-build-to-rent-scheme-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"First Brighton build to rent scheme approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Legal &amp; General&#8217;s housing arm has gained planning for Brighton&#8217;s first build to rent scheme near the city&#8217;s train station.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-storey block will provide around 200 flats for private renters at the\u00a0Longley Industrial Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Legal &amp; General, which entered the BTR sector in 2016, now has 11 schemes in operation or development across the UK, delivering 3,700 homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p>Situated between New England Street and Elder Place, the Longley\u00a0Place development has been designed by EPR Architects,\u00a0with Hoare Lea delivering building services and Aecom structural design.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_308857\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Longley-Place-Brighton-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-308857 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Longley-Place-Brighton-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1844\" height=\"1210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building will also offer ground floor commercial space<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dan Batterton, head of build\u00a0to rent at LGIM Real Assets, said: \u201cThe UK needs urban centres that are fit for purpose and can support a creative and sustainable community like Brighton. We are pleased to be bringing the BTR concept to the city, demonstrating that renting can be an aspirational choice and supporting the workforce with the quality homes they deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_308859\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Longley-Place-Brighton-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-308859 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.constructionenquirer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Longley-Place-Brighton-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"904\" height=\"742\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The building complex will rise to 80m at its highest point<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2YphdGt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal &amp; General&#8217;s housing arm has gained planning for Brighton&#8217;s first build to rent scheme near the city&#8217;s train station. The 16-storey block will provide around 200 flats for private renters at the\u00a0Longley Industrial Estate. Legal &amp; General, which entered the BTR sector in 2016, now has 11 schemes in operation or development across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}