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One Remaining Goldmine ? / Alan Stanton

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説明	¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯19 December 2010. On the right, Emily Bowes Court, student housing. In August 2010 Julia Kollewe's article in The Guardian newspaper explained why property developers saw student housing as: "a recession-proof investment". The article included this comment from James Moss, director at Curzon Investment Property, described as a "boutique investment agent". "Student property has been the one remaining goldmineof the market these past years. It's a licence to print moneybecause housing in university locations is often in short supply.The added incentive is that developers of such schemes getpreferential planning treatment.""But the reality is that poorer students are priced out,because these developments are created to serve the interests of shareholders – not students and communities.The government should really look to introduce price capping on such schemes to ensure that all studentsbenefit from them."My CommentThere will be no price-capping. The universities and their "partners" - companies running these blocks - will charge what the market will bear. And the market - usually of students from better-off families, or funded by foreign governments - has not dried up. I suggest we also need to be sceptical about claims that students in these blocks will contribute to "regenerating" an area. This comment is not anti-student. At Tottenham Hale, Unite makes a major point of Emily Bowes Court's closeness to the station. As I've illustrated, at least until December 2010, Tottenham itself has been almost invisible in the sales pitch to students. Apart from mentioning the nearby Paddock and Lee Valley parks, location as a selling point is about the convenience of getting away - to colleges across London - and to more "stylish" areas closer to the centre. "We free up spaces in houses in inner London ..."Emily Bowes Court was officially opened in November 2009 by Richard Blakeway, Housing Advisor to Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London. The event was reported in the local Haringey Independent newspaper which quoted Mr Blakeway saying:"by building student accommodation in outer London,we free up spaces in houses in inner London that couldbe used as homes for families in overcrowded, temporaryaccommodation."Which suggested an appalling ignorance about the enormous numbers of overcrowded, and poorly housed families in Haringey, and those who are homeless and in temporary housing. Nor, apparently had Mr Blakeway grasped the fact that Haringey, although funded as an Outer London borough, has all the problems of the inner ring of poorer boroughs. Boosting the EconomyThe Haringey independent also reported that students in Emily Bowes Court: " . . are also being tipped to boost the economy byspending their income at the nearby retail park whichhouses a Costa coffee shop, Lidl food store, chemist Boots and Staples stationery supplier."Now that's what I call a boost!_____________________________________________Links§ Haringey Independent 'Beehive of arts students move in.§ Article by Julia Kollewe: Blackstone's Nido Spitalfields is the latest student hall development§ Article by Patrick Collinson and Rekha Jogia: The best and worst student accommodation.§ The snow in the photo once covered a green area. Now a "regenerated" bleak asphalt nowhereville.
撮影日	2010-12-19 12:30:16
撮影者	Alan Stanton
タグ	snow Tottenham Hale station Tottenham Haringey Emily Bowes Court Unite student housing Newlon Lee Valley Estates Hale Village London N17 student housing Owen Hatherley geo:lat=51.588822 geo:lon=-0.060773 geotagged De Havilland Court /flickr:5301362297
撮影地	London, England, United Kingdom 地図

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