A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
New tighter planning controls given in a statement by the housing minister in June 2010 will affect ‘HMO’s (houses of multiple occupation), which is of concern to students looking to rent property in the private sector.
New local powers will be given to councils to control the number of HMOs in particular areas, and York City Council is considering implementing ‘Article 4 Direction’, a legislation that many other councils who have universities in their midst have made policy.
The new legislation means that planning permission would be required to turn a property into a student dwelling, thus allowing councils to control the location and concentration of student properties. Heslington, Hull Road and Fishergate have already been named as the three most popular student housing areas.
However, a substantial amount of research will take place before this legislation can be implemented. A large number of student houses can have cultural, physical and economic effects on an area. The social impact is seen as being most important, as it can cause the displacement of established residents within a young, transient social group. It is well known that residents experience increased levels of crime and anti-social behaviour in student-populated areas, as well as low-level maintenance and less community spirit. However, not all of this is always directly attributable to students, and the council recognises the economic benefits to the city of having a two higher education institutions. A local focus group and questionnaires will form the basis of the research to be undertaken by the council.
The density of student housing is six times higher in some areas than it was in 2000. Residents have expressed concern at the impact of higher concentration student areas. An alternative solution to the problem is selective licensing of student houses, which could push students further and further away from campus, meaning that travel expenses would be increased. Many letting agents in York are strongly opposed to any action being taken, and urge students to join them in protesting against the council. In particular, Niall McTurk, the owner of Sinclair Properties, has started a petition, and urges students to be present at a public meeting on the 1st February to express their anger at the ‘discrimination’ being shown towards students. Whichever legislation is passed by York City Council will affect the availability, rent and proximity to campus of private housing for York university students in the future.
"It is well known that residents experience increased levels of crime and anti-social behaviour in student-populated areas, as well as low-level maintenance and less community spirit. However, not all of this is always directly attributable to students."
I'm sorry, this is absolute rubbish. Have you even looked at the evidence that was put to the council in September & January - it actually shows lower levels of littering and anti-social behaviour in areas with a high student population. And indeed most of the incidents quoted are where victims are the students, not the local residents. This is an outrageous move by The Yorker to perpetuate a myth anti-student council chiefs are putting forward.
"An alternative solution to the problem is selective licensing of student houses, which could push students further and further away from campus, meaning that travel expenses would be increased."
What absolute tosh - there are many problems with selective licensing, but not this. The Article 4 Direction is aimed at moving students further away from campus. The whole idea of the Article 4 Direction is that the density of student houses is high near the University, so they will limit conversions to HMOs there by decreeing an Article 4 Direction and putting such conversions under planning legislation - that not selective licensing will increase travel costs.
Come on the Yorker - you can do so much better than this!
I thought this article was well written and wasn't 'absolute tosh'. If you think you could write better then why don't you do it, and stop offending the writers.
#1 I don't wholly understand your objection to this writer's phrasing in your first point, given that she refers to "residents", not "local residents", and therefore this implies student *residents* also as victims - so your rash comment about "most of the incidents quoted are where victims are the students" doesn't make sense as a reason to condemn the comment.
Perhaps I'm reading you wrong, but that's my two cents.
comment deleted by the author #2 this article is on the most important issue for students the council has discussed in the last 4 years. When reporting on it, journalists have a duty to accurately inform readers of the facts.
#3 the argument being put by the council is that areas with high concentration of students experience higher rates of crime, therefore the concentration of students needs to be more dispersed across the city. However, the statistics don't back this up, as can be seen in the reports put to the full council in September and January. That was the point I was making, as the article seems to put forward this idea of higher crime as "fact" without showing any empirical evidence.
I prefer your second comment Mr Belmore; sounds a lot more reasonable and less sensationalist. Not that there's anything wrong with sensationalism.
If you're reading/writing for Vision.
In my opinion, objectional comments on any news articles should stick to the "facts" and any misrepresentation of them, or not with the aim of correction, rather than attacking a writer.
Mind you, I love flaming opinion pieces. That's more acceptable, isn't it?
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