Studentification of Swansea
- Created by: Paulhowe03
- Created on: 22-02-21 19:27
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- Student-ification of Swansea
- What is Student-ification?
- This refers to the phenomenon in which a growing student population move in large numbers to traditionally non-student neighbour-hoods
- Negatives
- Decrease house price
- Antisocial behaviour
- Can make local communities feel a loss of sense of place
- Depending on the term time student spending varies making it hard for local business during holidays
- Increase in noise pollution which causes conflict with locals
- Positives
- Increase spending in the local economy during term time
- Having more highly skilled students in an area increases chance of large companies moving into the area boosting the economy
- The Swansea students managed to raise 20,000 pounds for charity
- Students can improve the local creative aspect of the city with music and visual arts
- More students can make a more culturally diverse community which could attract people of different cultures and bring some variety to the city
- How is Swansea responding to studentification?
- Increase police hours to help reduce antisocial behaviour and noise pollution
- The university increased student capacity from 3000 to 18000 students without providing enough accommodation
- Who are the main stakeholders/ players in this issue?
- Swansea university
- Not providing enough accommodation
- Local residence
- Causing conflict between the students and local residence
- Students
- Causing problems in the local community
- Local businesses
- Making items more expensive due to having students in the community making it more difficult for locals
- Landlords
- Increasing house prices by making rent extremely expensive for students
- Swansea university
- What is Student-ification?
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