Families
are moving back to Headingley Leeds Today - 27 Jan 2007
...LEEDS, UK - FAMILIES are starting to return to Headingley
as students find homes elsewhere in the city, says the Shared
Housing Group.
This is a consortium of interested parties
who are trying to address the explosion in student numbers –
there are now more than 50,000 in Leeds.
Headingley, Hyde Park and Burley have borne
the brunt of the influx and in the last 10 years have seen an
exodus of families who have been offered high prices for their
properties by opportunist landlords.
But now there are signs that families are coming back, says
Headingley councillor Martin Hamilton, chairman of the Shared
Housing Group ...
"We are now starting to see empty houses
in Headingley. Is that because of the number of purpose-built
student complexes that are going up thick and fast?
"We are talking about 2,000 to 2,500 empty
bed spaces which is equivalent to several hundred properties
...
Our
area is going to be swamped by students
Leeds Today - 11 Oct 2005
...LEEDS, UK - RESIDENTS in Leeds claim their neighbourhood is
about to turn into a "student ghetto" with around 2,000
undergraduates set to move in.
People living in Little Woodhouse, on the outskirts
of the city centre, say that while a scheme for a student village
in Holbeck has been shelved by Leeds University, one is being
built on their own doorsteps instead – by private firms.
As many as six blocks of flats – some up
to fourteen storeys tall – are being planned in Little Woodhouse.
The developments will be concentrated around the Burley Road and
Kirkstall Road area, which already has three large blocks of student
flats.
Freda Matthews, chair of the Little Woodhouse
Community Association, said: "We are going to be surrounded.
I think we'll end up with a student ghetto in an area without
the infrastructure to support it."...
Trust
to fight for family homes in student ghetto
Leeds Today - 21 Sep 2005
...LEEDS, UK - A RESIDENTS' group could enter the housing market
to try to encourage more families to move into their area.
People living in the Leeds suburb of Headingley
– which has a 60 per cent student population – have
set up the Headingley Development Trust. They hope the scheme
will have an impact on both the commercial and housing markets
in the area.
Founder member Lesley Jeffries, chair of residents'
association Headingley Network, said: "There are a number
of community trusts around the country which run everything from
theatres to affordable housing.
"They can change the way people feel about their surroundings.
"In Headingley, the driving force behind the idea is the
need to conserve the housing stock and make the community pleasant
for families and older people.
"We may team up with housing associations
to turn around some of the more run-down housing in our area,
but we're anxious first of all to make a very visible mark on
the landscape of Headingley."
Funding
To that end, the group is seeking to take over
the site of Headingley Primary School, which is due to close next
summer. The Bennett Road building would be set aside for community
use and provide some of the funding for the Trust's activities.
Ms Jeffries said: "We want to turn
it into a symbol of renewal and revitalisation in the heart of
Headingley."
The group hopes it may reach a point where it is able to enter
the housing market, encouraging residents to sell their homes
"back to the community", rather than to landlords.
Those properties could then be sold to families keen to move into
the area but who are currently being priced out of the market.
l Call Jane Williams on 0113 2742763 or pick up a leaflet from
Headingley library for more details.
grant.woodward@ypn.co.uk
Inner-city
student village is scrapped University pulls the plug on £100m scheme
for Holbeck
Leeds Today - 24 Sep 2005
...LEEDS, UK - Plansto create the country's first student village
in an inner city suburb have been scrapped.
Leeds University had intended to build accommodation for up to
3,000 undergraduates in south Leeds.
The £100m scheme in Holbeck - which was to include £20m
on transport links plus new shops and leisure facilities - was
welcomed by many residents who saw it as a chance to regenerate
their area.
However, the university has now pulled the plug, with a spokeswoman
saying that although it remains "interested" in Holbeck,
it has "no immediate plans" for student housing in the
area. Adam Ogilvie, Labour councillor for Beeston and Holbeck,
said he was convinced the scheme would not be going ahead.
"It has certainly become clear from council officers that
the university is not really interested in anything large in the
area anymore," he said. "I think they overestimated
what they needed."
The village was at the centre of the university's housing strategy
for coping with rising student numbers published in March last
year...
Border controls for student Shangri-la Exclusion zone for new flats and hostels proposed in attempt
to bring life back to areas where full-time residents are a minority
The Guardian - 2 Oct 2004
...LEEDS, UK - More than 60,000 students returned to Leeds this
week to discover a vast social experiment which aims to limit
their "takeover" of scores of
streets around the two universities...
Australia
Brisbane
Becoming
a University Town ABC
Brisane -9 July 2003
...For the second year, the University of Queensland's Ipswich
Campus has hosted a global conference exploring ways universities
can build bridges and usefully serve their surrounding communities...
Canada
Town
and Gown Association of Ontario Building Bridges 2005
From June 19 to 22, Brock University hosted Building Bridges 2005, a
National Forum on Town and Gown Issues which explored the connections
between post-secondary institutions, municipalities, local citizens
and students.
This conference gathered stakeholders to discuss the
issues surrounding campus and community relations. It focused on the
sharing of ideas, experiences and methods of best practice.
"Brock is extremely excited to be hosting this
Town and Gown conference, the first of its kind in Canada," said
Brad Clarke, Brock University Off-Campus Housing Officer before the
conference. "Since many of the issues facing universities and municipalities
are similar across the country, it's really important for all stakeholders
to get together and share what they've learned from experiences in their
respective communities."
Over 60 delegates attended the conference, including
city and municipality administration, university representatives, residents,
and students from 5 different provinces and more than 30 municipalities.
Sessions included discussion of a number of campus-community issues
and examples of what schools across Canada are doing to meet the increasing
demands of Town and Gown relationships. Delegates also participated
in round table and case study discussions as an opportunity to share
ideas and strategies, as well as a number of social events and evening
programs...
Dal's
rowdy students not cops' domain, Fardy says Halifax Herald Limited - 19 Nov 2003
...Nova Scotia's privacy commissioner says police have been
acting outside their jurisdiction by helping a Halifax university
identify rowdy students living off-campus...
Dalhousie
threatens to expel unruly students National Post, CA - 17 Nov 2003
...Rowdy students who live in a wealthy Halifax neighbourhood
that is home to two Supreme Court judges and several Dalhousie
University alumni have prompted a tough new policy that could
see them lose scholarships and on-campus jobs and even risk
expulsion for disrupting the community...
Campus Town Association (CTA) and Town and
Gown Association of Ontario (TGAO) will co- host an Evening
with Dr. Darren P. Smith on Tuesday, May 30, 7:30 p.m., at
Westdale United Church, at the corner of Paisley Avenue North
and Cline Avenue in Hamilton, Ontario.
Dr. Smith is a reader in Human Geography
at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom, and is fast
developing an international reputation for research into near-campus
issues. He obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in
1998 and worked on a number of ESRC research projects between
1998 and 2001.
His research interests focus on contemporary
processes of urban and rural change and the emergence of new
social, cultural, and economic geographies. In 1999 Dr. Smith
coined the term "studentification" to describe the
profound urban changes tied to the marked expansion of higher
education in the UK since the mid-1990s, and this term has
been widely embraced by central and local government, the
media, the private sector, and local community groups...
New
harmony in studentville
The Hamilton Spectator - 14 Mar 2005
HAMILTON, CANADA - It's not quite the end of hostilities in
Westdale and West Hamilton, but new understandings of issues,
shared by permanent residents and McMaster University, may
mark a new age of detente.
The problem is not as simple as clashes between
staid homeowners and noisy students, although there have been
those. The problem is that the nature of residential neighbourhoods
around McMaster changed without the benefit of planning...
Community
partners form Campus Town Association
December 17, 2004
McMaster and its neighbours today launched
a not-for-profit organization to establish and sustain a vibrant
university campus community in Hamilton's Ainslie Wood/Westdale-McMaster
neighbourhood.
The University, the Ainslie Wood/Westdale
Community Association of Resident Homeowners (AWWCA) and the
Westdale Village Business Improvement Association (BIA) announced
the creation of the Campus Town Association (CTA)...
Kingston,
Canada
Mending
fences in the Ghetto Principal’s Task Force unveils 13-point
plan to improve student-community relations
Queens Journal - 28 Jun 2005
After more than six months of research, public consultation
and meetings, the Principal’s Task Force on Community
Relations has released 13 recommendations to address city-student
tensions that came to a head last fall and winter.
The report states the recommendations are “intended
to create the conditions for change.”
Highlights include a commitment of the University and student
governments to work with Kingston police to improve Homecoming,
a review of student-administered non-academic discipline and
the provision of more resources to deal with problem drinking
among students.
Principal Karen Hitchcock endorsed the report at the Queen’s
Community Breakfast, held at the Howard Johnson Hotel, where
it was officially released on June 15.
“I’m pleased that students and citizens and members
of the Queen’s community have come together and all
have a single mind on this,” Hitchcock told reporters.
“I’m very hopeful this will bring about real,
lasting change.”
The report is largely the University’s response to permanent
city residents—especially those living in or near the
Ghetto—who voiced strong concerns about off-campus student
behaviour, beginning with a meeting organized at the Kingston
Frontenac Public Library last November...
Task
Force, town want on “the same team”
Queen's University Journal - 11 Mar 2005
KINGSTON, ON - “It is clearly unrealistic to expect
thousands of students with a significantly different lifestyle
to co-exist with permanent residents in a very small geographical
area without problems arising,” he said...
Judge
strikes down Glendridge housing bylaw
Standard - 27 May 2006
ST CATHERINES, ON - A municipal bylaw that brought new zoning
rules to the Glenridge area in an effort to keep student housing
in check has been ruled illegal.
Justice Joseph Quinn found the bylaw was
passed without a public meeting, as is required under the
planning act, and was “unfair” to building owners.
The Superior Court decision overturns a bylaw
St. Catharines city council passed in November limiting the
size of apartments in the area and creating higher standards
for parking and landscaping.
The ruling also renders all appeals of the
bylaw to the Ontario Municipal Board moot because there is
no longer a bylaw to appeal.
“I am profoundly disappointed in this
process,” said Carolyn Toth, past-president of the St.
Catharines Association of Concerned Citizens Inc. “I
am profoundly disappointed that they quashed the new bylaw
on a technicality...
also, search the Web on: "75 metre Minimum Distance
Separation"
Ireland
Student
Accommodation Provision Gets Boost as More Properties are Licensed Northern Ireland Housing Executive - 11 Oct
2002
...A great deal of progress has been made in this area of the private
rented sector since the launch of the Voluntary Licensing Scheme at
the beginning of this year and it is encouraging to be presenting
a further 52 licences today, particularly when they relate to student
accommodation...
Belfast
Queen's
suspends 'lewd' student
BBC News - 11 Mar 2005
...BELFAST, IE - The university is tackling anti-social behaviour
An "off-campus" disciplinary group at Queen's University
Belfast has suspended its first student for bad behaviour
in public...
Student
behaviour 'deplorable'
BBC, Ireland - 3 Dec 2004
...BELFAST, IRELAND - Anti-social behaviour by students in
south Belfast is completely unacceptable, the new vice chancellor
of Queen's University has said.
Peter Gregson said a new disciplinary code
for off-campus behaviour would be used against offending students...
Student
boss warns over future friction
Belfast Telegraph - 02 Dec 2004
...LONDONDERRY, IRELAND - Londonderry's Rosemount will be
in danger of spiralling out of control in a similar manner
to Belfast's Holyland within a few years if proactive steps
are not taken immediately, Northern Ireland's student chief
warned today...
New
laws tackle student housing spread Tough new planning laws drawn up after complaints from residents
of south Belfast's university area will control the spread of
student accommodation, it emerged today.
U.TV - 28 Nov 2004
BELFAST, IRELAND - From tomorrow landlords and developers wishing
to change a family home into a house of multiple occupation
must apply for planning permission.
The move comes after residents of the Holylands
area near Queen`s University claimed they were being terrorised
by the anti-social behaviour of students...
This week, Queen's University students took
to the streets because people said nasty things about them
on the telly...
BBC
documentary sparks student protest
Education Guardian - 24 Nov 2004
...BELFAST, IRELAND - Hundreds of university students took to
the streets of Belfast last night to demonstrate against a BBC
documentary that accused them of anti-social behaviour.
Around 400 students gathered in the Holylands
area of Belfast following the 10.30pm screening of the Spotlight
documentary, which showed students urinating in doorways and
being noisy at night, and highlighted tensions between students
and residents...
Crackdown
on 'rowdy students'
BBC - 1 Oct 2004
...BELFAST, IRELAND - Noisy late night parties, rowdy drunkenness
and vandalism are making life hell, residents of Belfast's university
district have said.
However, a senior police officer has said
that extra resources will be used to tackle rowdy behaviour
in the city's Holyland...
Tide
of change in student area
BBC - 11 May 2004
BELFAST, IRELAND - Noisy parties, litter on the pavements and
nowhere to park. These are just some of the gripes of long-term
residents in a south Belfast area popular with students.
But after years of cool relations in the
area known as the Holyland, the atmosphere between students
and residents seem to be warming...
Town
is becoming a 'student ghetto'
Belfast
Telegraph - 16 May 2003
...PORTSTEWART town centre has become a "student ghetto"
with families forced to move out due to relentless anti-social
late night activity, it has been claimed...
Waterford
Screaming,
shouting and running riot at 4a.m. Waterford News, Ireland - 31 Oct 2003
...doubts about whether the new Code of Conduct at WIT would
make any difference. “At the end of the day, I don’t
believe the students will take it seriously. I want the college
on that piece of paper to say they are responsible for dealing
with students like this. But I know they won’t. They’ll
say whatever the students do outside college hours is their
own business.”...
Partying
students make life hell for residents Waterford News, Ireland - 31 Oct 2003
...Following a tense meeting between college authorities at
WIT and residents’ associations yesterday (Tuesday) week,
the residents have said their lives have been affected for long
enough and are calling for the introduction of a WIT Code of
Conduct as a priority...
United
Kingdom
Across
the UK
'Studentification': a guide to opportunities,
challenges and practice (released Jan 2006) covers
opportunities and challenges of housing growing waves of students
in off-campus neighborhoods.
Download a PDF copy of the report here.
Houses
in Multiple Occupation
The legal
definition of "House in Multiple Occupation" is a
"house which is occupied by persons who do not form a single
household". The terms also include any purpose built or
converted flat whose occupants do not form a single household.
A REVIEW
OF THE FIRST YEAR OF THE
MANDATORY LICENSING OF HOUSES IN
MULTIPLE OCCUPATION IN SCOTLAND
'Save
the student-flat suburbs' Yorkshire Post - 2 Nov 2007
... SHEFFIELD, UK - ACTION must be taken to stop families
being forced out of Sheffield suburbs by students' landlords
who buy houses and split them up into bedsits, according to
the city's Liberal Democrats.
The party, which is the second biggest on
Sheffield Council, will next week ask the entire authority
to call on the Government to tighten the rules on so-called
houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).
At present planning permission is not required
for landlords wishing to turn a former family home into student
accommodation, as long as it is not converted to cater for
more than six residents ...
Call
for halt to flats let out to students Herald - 2 Apr 2007
... GLASGOW, SCT - A group of residents has called for a halt
to further multiple student lets being permitted amid claims
that quiet residential areas are being shattered by loud parties.
According to campaigners in North Kelvinside
in the west end of Glasgow, rules which cap numbers of multiple
occupancy flats are being flouted, damaging quality of life
for families.
Glasgow, like many of Scotland's major towns
and cities, has been trying to curb the spread of houses in
multiple occupation (HMOs) without creating an accommodation
crisis. Glasgow's City Plan states there should be no more
than 10% house in multiple occupancy flats in a defined zone
around the Glasgow University area, with a 5% limit outside
that area ...
Shared
responsibility
Herald - 1 Apr 2007
... GLASGOW, SCT - The expansion of university places, combined
with a decrease in traditional halls of residence, has resulted
in greater numbers of students than ever before renting flats
from private landlords. In university towns and in the student
quarters of our cities this has become a particular problem.
The lifestyles of young people experiencing their first taste
of freedom all too frequently clash with those of established
residents, who are often elderly people and families with
young children. Being close to a university used to mean living
in one of the pleasanter parts of our cities. In some cases
it has now come to mean the reverse.
The problems are worst when the two groups
share the same buildings, such as in tenements in the west
end of Glasgow, where a noisy party in one flat cannot be
blocked out in the adjoining ones. The difficulty has been
recognised by the imposing of a limit of 10% on the proportion
of houses in multiple occupation in the area closest to Glasgow
University and 5% elsewhere in the city. Residents in the
area just outside the 10% zone say that in some streets the
level of HMO houses has reached 11% where it should be 5%.
Their complaints that the limit on the number of houses in
multiple occupation is not working echo those made in other
areas with large student populations ...
Families
are moving back to Headingley Leeds Today - 27 Jan 2007
...LEEDS, UK - FAMILIES are starting to return to Headingley
as students find homes elsewhere in the city, says the Shared
Housing Group.
This is a consortium of interested parties
who are trying to address the explosion in student numbers
– there are now more than 50,000 in Leeds.
Headingley, Hyde Park and Burley have borne
the brunt of the influx and in the last 10 years have seen
an exodus of families who have been offered high prices for
their properties by opportunist landlords.
But now there are signs that families are coming back, says
Headingley councillor Martin Hamilton, chairman of the Shared
Housing Group ...
"We are now starting to see empty houses
in Headingley. Is that because of the number of purpose-built
student complexes that are going up thick and fast?
"We are talking about 2,000 to 2,500
empty bed spaces which is equivalent to several hundred properties
...
Housing
sparks row Press - 27 Jan 2007
...YORK, UK - A PETITION was presented calling on City of
York Council to consider the impact of student housing on
local communities.
The petition, which contains 314 names, was
presented by Heslington councillor Ceredig Jamieson-Ball,
and has received the backing of the Heslington Parish Council.
Coun Jamieson-Ball said: "There is clearly
a great deal of concern about the impact of student housing
on local communities. I believe that it is important that
an analysis is carried out to learn more about the potential
effect of increased student housing and what can be done locally
to address any problems." ...
Doner
your way When students move into an
area, there's bad news and good, says a new report
Guardian - 24 Jan 2006
...UK - Today, a report advises universities and local authorities
on how to reap the benefits of students for the areas they inhabit,
and minimise the friction. There will always be potential for
friction and the transformation that some residents see as positive
will be hated by others, says Darren P Smith, reader in human
geography at Brighton University, who drafted the report for
Universities UK, the vice-chancellors' body, and the Standing
Conference of Principals (Scop), the umbrella group for higher
education college leaders...
Groups
widen alliance against students
The Herald - 14 Apr 2005
...SCOTLAND - HOMEOWNERS living near three of Scotland's oldest
universities who have formed an alliance to battle against
a rise in the number of student flats have taken action to
widen their campaign.
Members of community groups who claim multiple-occupancy
houses have invaded large areas of the west end of Glasgow,
Marchmont in Edinburgh and the centre of St Andrews are seeking
to enlist similarly-concerned residents in Dundee and Aberdeen...
City
suburb declares war on students
Edinburgh News - 13 Apr 2005
...EDINBURGH, UK - Residents in Edinburgh’s sought-after
Marchmont area are demanding action from the Scottish Executive
to halt any more student homes.
Animosity between students and householders
has long been a problem in the area, with wild parties, late-night
lifestyles and problems with litter trying residents’
patience...
Residents
demand curb on students Fallowfield's residents say they want a limit
on students living there
BBC - 6 Jan 2005
...FALLOWFIELD, MANCHESTER, UK - Residents in a Manchester
suburb are demanding action over the soaring numbers of students
moving in.
Almost half the population in Fallowfield,
a suburb two miles from the city's university, are students...
Even more depressed areas of the housing
market, including Dundee and Paisley, are feeling the impact,
according to figures from the Bank of Scotland...
Parents
rush to invest in student housing
Telegraph, UK - 21 Aug 2004
...Parents concerned about their children accumulating debt
while living in poor student accommodation
are making a fortune by investing in properties where they
are studying, according to research published today...
Buy-To-Let
Market Continues To Thrive
Chronicle, UK - 17 Aug 2004
...BATH, UK - The buy-to-let culture is alive and well in
Bath, according to a new report which says investors are still
snapping up homes to capitalise on the city's student population.
In its latest survey, Endsleigh Insurance
found student landlords in the city optimistic about the future
of buy-to-let, despite a national downturn...
Landlords
plan to charge students more
Manchester Online, UK - 17 Aug 2004
...MANCHESTER, UK - "The student market is an important
and lucrative one for a number of landlords across the UK
and it is vital that they are seen to respond to their tenants'
requirements, particularly when it comes to important issues
such as security."...
Students
flood city centre
icNewcastle - 11 Aug 2004
...DURHAM, UK - University bosses accused
of flooding a cathedral city with student accommodation say
they have taken a major step towards answering the criticism.
Durham University yesterday began work on
building a new college which will bring 800 new campus beds...
TOWN
AND GOWN STRUGGLES
BBC - 24 Mar 2004
...Universities are expanding at a rapid rate - latest figures
show 40% of 18 to 30-year-olds are in higher education. But
is this influx of fun-seeking freshers putting extreme pressure
on local communities? ...
City
warned over shared flat limit Edinburgh Evening News - 5 Feb 2004
...CITY leaders have been warned plans to limit the number
of shared flats in any single block would prove unworkable...
Affluent
areas seek curbs on students The Herald, UK - 4 Feb 2004
...Residents of some of Edinburgh's most affluent areas are
demanding council quotas to limit the number of student neighbours.
They warn that families face being disturbed by parties and
anti-social behaviour as they become swamped by students...
Street
becoming ‘student ghetto’ Evening Telegraph, UK - 30 Jan 2004
...Signs of fading public patience with the the gradual takeover
of St Andrews town centre by multi-occupancy student flats
have intensified with a decision by councillors to refuse
a licence for a former manse in the town...
Council
Aims to Cut Home Tax Discount Express & Echo - 20 January 2004
...Second home owners in Exeter are likely to lose almost
all of their 50 per cent council tax discount ... some parents
with children at Exeter University are believed to have bought
houses for their offspring and many property investors have
been trying to cash in on the 'buy to let' boom...
Did
anyone ask you if you wanted 3,000 more students in Worcester? Newsquest Midlands South Ltd - 20 Oct
2003
...Landlords routinely squeeze eight students into a terrace
designed as a standard family home, then sit back and watch
the money roll in. Meanwhile, neighbouring families, unable
to stand the noise, litter and general deterioration of the
area, sell up - usually to another landlord. And so the takeover
goes on...
Sinking
in a sea of sleaze Birmingham Evening Mail - 19 Oct 2003
..."The doubling of the student intake at Birmingham University
over the past 15 years has turned Selly Oak into a student dormitory,"
said Barry, who runs the Bournbrook Community Safety Project.
"We have landlords here who see the area as some place
where they can make a lot of money but put nothing back."...
Sub-standard conditions, some below
Environmental Health regulations, are endemic as are wrongly
withheld deposits...
University
towns in house price boom BBC News - 26 Sep 2003
...Percentage price rise from 1997 to 2001
Bath 118%
Oxford 99%
Southampton 85%
Cambridge 83%
Edinburgh 82%
St Andrews 82%
Colchester 78%
London 76%
Bristol 72%
Leeds 50%
Birmingham 47%
Coventry 38%
Unis
‘must end student ghettos’ Regeneration & Renewal - 13 Sep
2003
...The destruction of communities by an onslaught of students
can be tackled by proactive efforts to disperse undergraduates
around town, according to an academic.
The claim was made this week by Brighton
University’s Dr Darren Smith – the man who coined
the term “studentification” to describe the adverse
effects that an influx of students can have on popular districts
of major university cities.
Plea
for help over housing for students Edinburgh Evening News - 4 Apr 2003
...The Government should step in to help cash-strapped universities
in Edinburgh properly accommodate the rising number of students
in the Capital, city council members have claimed...
A
new wave of apartments is to be created in Liverpool city centre Daily Post - 31 Mar 2003
...The biggest scheme will see a student village in the area
around the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation head-quarters in
London Road The £20m development will provide student
accommodation and homes for people working in university facilities
on site...
College
site home plans cause outcry Wandsworth Guardian -28 Mar 2003
...The outcry follows council approval this month for the college's
multi-million pound development of Parkstead House, Roehampton,
funded by the sale of the existing Whitelands site to Nicholson
Estates last year...
Campus
owners to spend £7m on flats Huddersfield Daily Examiner - 28 Mar 2003
...multi- million-pound project would provide "our young
people with the opportunity to live and learn in some of the
best accommodation in the country...
Action
plan is formed over student influx The Evening Chronicle - 15 Mar 2003
...It's one of Tyneside's most exclusive suburbs, with leafy
streets lined by elegant houses, a bustling shopping centre
and a famous beauty spot. But people living in Jesmond, on the
edge of Newcastle city centre, are becoming increasingly concerned
about the changing character of their popular residential area.
Families are starting to move out and increasing numbers of
students are moving in as landlords convert more properties
into flats and bedsits...
Appeal
Starts on Student Housing Bath Chronicle - 12 Mar 2003
...A Public inquiry into plans for a major student housing development
is under way in Bath. Developers are appealing against a decision
by local planners to block proposals for the former Hygate Gears
site on the Lower Bristol Road...
Headache
over student flood icNewcastle.co.uk - 5 Mar 2003
...New accommodation will be needed for thousands of students
after an expansion by two of the region's universities...
How
to cash in as the learning curve soars The Observer - 23 Feb 2003
...Student accommodation is a boom business - but you can't
do it on the cheap, says Graham Norwood...
Students
spark cause for concern among residents Wandsworth Burough Guardian, UK - 24 Jan
2003
...Residents said they were fed up with the problem of University
Of Surrey students many of whom live on the estate parking cars
on pavements and urged councillors to see the scale of the problem
for themselves...
CITY
TURNS UP THE HEAT ON LAZY LANDLORDS Nottingham - 14 Jan 2003
...Landlords who ignore appeals to sign up to the City Council’s
registration scheme for houses in multiple occupation could
soon be looking at hefty fines for neglecting their duty...
Studentification:
Housing Hell In The UK
"'Studentification'
brings huge profits to landlords but major problems to locals...all
these extra students have to live somewhere, and the cities
to which they are flocking must accommodate them...tudents
are sheep-like; they want to live where there are other
students. So houses in popular zones, no matter how rundown,
become gigantic cash cows. Landlords routinely squeeze eight
students into a terrace designed as a standard family home,
then sit back and watch the money roll in. Meanwhile, neighbouring
families, unable to stand the noise, litter and general
deterioration of the area, sell up — usually to another
landlord. And so the takeover goes on."
Students
to benefit from housing reform Guardian - 13 Nov 2002
...The National Union of Students has welcomed housing reforms
designed to ensure the better regulation of houses of multiple
occupancy, announced in the Queen's speech today...
Students
living in 'sub-standard' housing The Guardian - 3 Oct 2002
...Students spend up to 80% of their money on rent, yet, according
to the housing charity Shelter, they are living in "sub-standard"
accommodation and increasingly seeking advice on housing problems.
Perhaps surprisingly, the charity says more students living
in Oxford seek their advice on housing problems than those living
in any other university town with a Shelter office...
Housing
threat Oxford Student - 18 Apr 2002
...CITY Councillors are considering plans to move a number of
'vulnerable' groups away from the east of Oxford in order to
achieve a more even spread of tenancies across the city. This
could potentially have disastrous effects on students.
The plans could drive students away from
popular areas such as Cowley, and also drive up rent prices
throughout Oxford. It is likely that they would force more
students to live away from the city centre and from the University's
facilities...
Why
register will protect tenants Brighton and Hove - 8 Apr 2002
...The scheme, which applies to homes in multiple occupation,
has been attacked by landlords as unfair and unworkable...
The
big scream: Rats in the kitchen, damp in the bath. Donald
MacLeod on student housing The Guardian - 30 Oct 2001
...Randall and her flatmates were not alone in another sense
- 16% of students live in vermin-infested houses, according
to a survey by the National Union of Students...
Ghetto
blaster: Burgers, bars and high rents ... Lee Elliot Major
on the real impact of 'studentsville' The Guardian - 28 Nov 2000
...Government and university authorities have ignored the impact
of the huge growth in student rented housing, which has driven
out low-income tenants and first-time home buyers from entire
areas of cities...
Action
Demand Over Student Homes Evening Post, UK- 9 Feb 2004
...The registrar of the University of Nottingham is to be
shown at first-hand problems which it is claimed are caused
by students in parts of the city.
It comes after 50 people attended the first
meeting of a residents' pressure group set up to tackle the
problem.
The Nottingham Action Group on HMO's (houses
of multi-occupancy) met for the first time on Saturday at
The Western Club in Derby Road, Lenton...
Beggar
my neighbour Telegraph, UK - 15 Nov 2003
...When students take over areas near campus, it's great for
them, but not so much fun for the locals, says Gary King...
Oxford,
UK
University
to build affordable homes for staff Guardian - 9 Jan 2006
...OXFORD, UK - Oxford University is planning to build 200 homes
for its staff in a bid to help struggling academics priced out
of the local housing market, it emerged today.
The university fears that its world-class
reputation is threatened by the difficulty it faces recruiting
staff due to spiralling property prices in the area...
Celebrating
our good neighbours Oxford Brookes University - Spring 2004
...We are pleased to announce the results of the University’s
Good Neighbour Competition, launched last autumn as part of
our ongoing efforts to encourage neighbourliness. The competition
set out to find the best student and non-student neighbours
and why they get on...
