Designed for Wellbeing: The ethical property developer’s guide to creating student accommodation that outperforms the market

It has never been more important to take a fresh look at student accommodation and design to improve student wellbeing.

If you are an investor, developer or a landlord, Designed for Wellbeing shows you how to make a positive impact on students’ lives while also having a highly profitable investment.

Read this book to:

• Understand what wellbeing is and why it is so important to the individual and to wider society

• Learn about proven design principles that optimise wellbeing in student accommodation

• Develop a high-demand property that tenants will want to live in and look after

• Benefit from strong, long-term returns from a high-performance asset

Philippa trained as an architect and urban designer and studied for a Masters in Urban Regeneration and Development. She worked for ten years in the public and private sectors, facilitating high-profile urban regeneration projects throughout the UK and Australia. Philippa has been responsible for developing local and regional plans, policies and strategies; urban design studies, frameworks and guidelines; masterplans; and development approvals. She was one of the first people in the country to be awarded the title Recognised Practitioner in Urban Design and has won an award for urban design excellence.

Tom is a Chartered Landscape Architect and has fifteen years' experience working in the built environment. He has worked on strategic masterplans and policy development though to detailed design and implementation of large-scale residential and commercial projects across the UK and internationally.