AN eight-week consultation on the revision of student accommodation will be launched across the city.
The document featuring the revised supplementary guidance on student accommodation was presented to the neighbourhoods committee yesterday afternoon.
The aim is to create better quality accommodation an improve integration between new facilities and existing communities.
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The 2011 Census confirmed that there were almost 130,000 students studying in Glasgow with nearly half of these students living in the city’s boundary.
Traditionally, students have lived in halls of residence, at home, in Houses in Multiple Occupancy (HMO) or private rented accommodation.
But over the past 10 years, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) has become an increasingly popular development model which primarily attracts post-graduate and international students.
Areas of concentration where there are high volumes of student accommodation include South Partick/Yorkhill, the area surrounding Glasgow University and Townhead, a neighbourhood east of Glasgow Caledonian University and North of Strathclyde.
The local authority believes that further development of PBSA would likely undermine residential amenity in these areas and will therefore resist any further applications for developments of this nature in these areas.
The council is trying to repopulate other areas of the city and invites applications for PBSA to achieve this.
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Councillor Kenny McLean, City Convener for neighbourhoods, housing & public realm at Glasgow City Council, said: “Glasgow is home to a huge, vibrant student population, who have a key role in the current and future social and economic life of the city.
“So it is important that purpose-built student accommodation integrates with the community it is located in, and is designed and built to be of sufficient size and standard.
“The forthcoming consultation on policy around student accommodation in Glasgow will allow student bodies, universities and colleges, community groups and other interested parties the chance to make their views known.”
Following the consultation, the guidance will be reviewed based upon the comments received and a revised version of the guidance will be borught back to committee prior to being submitted to the Scottish Government to seek approval to adopt it as Statutory Guidance.
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