People in Cardiff say they are concerned about properties built for students replacing the city’s green spaces.<\/b><\/p>\n
Two developers have asked Cardiff Council for permission to let rooms to general tenants in Adamsdown and Roath because they say there is a lack of demand from students.<\/p>\n
Cardiff Green Party member, Keith Watts says it is a case of private companies profiting off public land.<\/p>\n
Mr Watts says: “In general the community is not happy about having more student flats.”<\/p>\n
“Our concern within the Greens is that it’s poor quality housing via the back door.<\/p>\n
“They can build them more cheaply and more quickly. Then they don’t have the demand, they swap it into a normal flat, and sell it for a large profit off the back of what was public land and a public recreation space.<\/p>\n
“It’s a private profit off the back of public loss.”<\/p>\n
Student accommodation is not classed as housing, and it is often cheaper to build as it doesn’t always have the same obligations for natural light and space.<\/p>\n
But Crosslane, one of the student property developers, say they were forced to make the “difficult decision” to find a different use for their property because of a lack of demand from students.<\/p>\n
If approved by Cardiff Council, the licence will allow them to let out apartments to general tenants for up to 90 days for the next year.<\/p>\n
Residents in Adamsdown have launched a petition against another development, saying inner-city green spaces are being sacrificed for more unnecessary student blocks.<\/p>\n
More than 400 people have signed the petition opposing the\u00a0Howard Gardens site.<\/p>\n
The land was sold off by the council in 2015, and the two-block student development will have more than 1,000 beds if planning permission is granted early next year.<\/p>\n
The council has approved plans for more student builds providing a further 2,696 beds.<\/p>\n
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