LETTER: Universities acting like vampires on Bath housing market – Bath Chronicle

This is a letter from a resident in response to news that Bath Spa University's Green Park House is available during term-time to non-students.

I don't care if other universities do it.

I don't know what the situation is in other places.

But here communities are being destroyed by HMOs.

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I remember when Oldfield Park was a thriving little place which won prizes for its floral displays in gardens.

Now house after house stands empty in holiday times. The only thing that flourishes in their gardens are To Let signs.

Homes that were ideal starter homes are lost to the market.

Buy to let landlords slap paint over a multitude of sins so students are going into houses that are very probably horribly damp, with other possible safety issues.

No one checks properly.

I know because my son used to do decorating for such a landlord in his vacations.

The community is being damaged and students are being ripped off. The universities are being thoroughly immoral over this.

Ideally, all students should be in proper halls of residence.

The two unis are acting like vampires on the housing/development market and letting down their students.

If they have spaces, they should be MADE to accommodate students in them.

Unfortunately, no politicians want to take the unis on.

It's widely believed they run this town.

Kirsten Elliott

Bathwick

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