Student Accommodation Project Filed for Clayton

Plans for an additional student accommodation project has been filed with the Monash City Council on the doorstep of the namesake university.

The 744sq m site for the proposed development, 39 Beddoe Avenue, Clayton, is near the Clayton campus of Monash University.

CSIRO’s Monash campus is on the northern end of Beddoe Avenue, the Monash Medical Centre is 1.5km away and the Clayton Railway Station is 2km from the site.

The Jesse Ant Architects designed plans show 32 rooms across three storeys.

A basement level would have eight car parking spaces and room for bike and other storage.

Two lobby areas, at the front and the back, will be on the ground floor as well as 11 units, two of which will be accessible, as well as a communal laundry.

The second floor wpould have 13 units and the third would have six units.

All units will be studios with a kitchenette, bathroom, study nook and space for a chair and TV plus storage facilities.

▲ The site of the proposed student accommodation block in Clayton with the Monash University campus on the right. Images: NearMap

Application documents lodged with the Monash City Council list Susan Joy Fitzgerald as the sole proprietor as the executor of Joan Patricia Earrey’s estate.

The site is currently occupied by a three-bedroom house.

Corelogic’s property records list the house as being built in 1950 but do not list any further transactions or sales for the site. It was last put on the market in April 2022.

Purpose-built student accommodation is a market primed for growth as international students return after Covid and the appetite for online learning wanes. 

Developers are now concerned that there won’t be enough student accommodation for the demand and that students will enter the already tight rental market instead.