FOI - Planning applications for student accommodation [Jul 2026]

1. The total number of planning applications granted permission across London for student accommodation, meaning developments built and marketed exclusively for student occupation.
2. The total number of planning applications granted permission across London for conventional residential apartment developments.
3. For each student accommodation scheme granted permission, please provide: the site address, the number of units or beds approved, whether any affordable housing provision was required as a condition of permission, and if so, how many units or beds were designated affordable and how affordability was defined in each case.

Our response

Please find attached the information within parts 1 and 2 of your request. For part 3 we have included the data on affordable units where available but we do not hold the data on whether the units were conditioned or not.