YOUR report about the enlargement proposed for York University campus (June 14) poses an interesting question about student accommodation.
If student numbers are to rise from 10,000 to 15,500 and the new complex is to include accommodation for 3,300 students, can anyone explain where the other 2,300 are going to live?
Has the university a policy on the matter? Has the vice chancellor an opinion on it? After all, it is his university and his students. Has the City of York Council a policy on student housing? If not, why not?
Is the council happy to let speculators buy up houses in the area as they become available, turn them into bed-sits thus turning estates in the area into student ghettos with all the problems that brings?
Questions have been asked at various meetings but answers have not been forthcoming.
I cannot help feeling that what is happening is undemocratic, unethical and a contravention of basic human rights in forcing residents who are, after all, council taxpayers to flee the area.
David Hay,
Kimberlow Wood Hill,
Badger Hill, York.
Updated: 09:46 Friday, June 18, 2004
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