Student accommodation giant Iglu is targeting a half-dozen Sydney universities and colleges with an 18-storey mixed-use tower—its second development along the inner city’s Anzac Parade.

Iglu has lodged plans with the Randwick City Council for 300 student accommodation beds within 285 rooms across 16 floors above a three-storey podium built around a landscaped courtyard.

Bates Smart Architecture won a design competition to create a design for the $53-million development across four lots totalling 1580 square metres. They will retain the facades of four existing 1940s buildings across the front of the podium.