Bauhaus Ltd wants to convert the B-listed Denburn House into student flats.

The applicant also owns the 17-19 Union Terrace building next door – and has already secured permission to turn it into a block of 28 student flats.

It says this project will be “in synergy” with those plans, and will add to the “vitality, vibrance and viability of the city centre”.

In total, the makeover of the building would create 161 student apartments.

Each unit would have a bed, study space, kitchen and shower room. There would also be a cinema room, group study room, a reception area and offices in the complex.

Planning papers sent to Aberdeen City Council say there is “a need for further accommodation” for students as only 36% of those attending city universities are “able to access purpose-built student accommodation”.

Others are then “pushed into other areas of the housing market”.

The papers add: “It is self-evident that the client would not be advancing these proposals unless they were satisfied there was demand.”

“Each self-contained apartment high quality accommodation of a size which achieves required space standards,” it states.

Perhaps to show this off, developers have also included images showing the smaller rooms available at Aberdeen University and RGU blocks in comparison to some of the converted hotel rooms they offer.

Aberdeen University objected to the previous plans to form 28 student flats at the building next door on Union Terrace.

Director of estates and facilities, Morag Beers, wrote last year: “It is our position that there is no need for student accommodation at this location and we object on that basis.”