The University of St Andrews is pressing ahead with plans to provide an extra 700 student beds in town, to help take the pressure off the private rental market.
Working with its partner Campus Living Villages (CLV), the university is re-submitting multi-million pound plans for a new student residence on the site of Albany Park, the 1970s accommodation at East Sands which was demolished in 2020.
A statement from the university suggested that the pandemic, economic downturn and the subsequent hike in the cost of building materials made its original plans for the site unfeasible.
