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What is local people’s concern?
• NOT an objection to more student accommodation on campus
• NOT necessarily an objection to the building of a conference centre on an appropriate site
• BUT a deep concern about development on this particular site
Reasons against development on the southern slopes
• A rich historical and natural landscape – a ‘mosaic environment’
• Green space which is a valued amenity
• Designated as ‘Open Space’ in the Local Plan, in an Area of High Landscape Value
• Irreplaceable views across the fields to the Cathedral and World Heritage Site
• The University’s reputation locally
Alternative sites?
• YES
• For example
• The land between the Business Innovation Centre and the new Keynes accommodation
• The ‘central woodlands’
A second local concern
• An inevitable increase in noise and disturbance for local residents
• Close proximity of seven accommodation blocks to local housing
• Increase in disturbance from night-time/early morning transit between town and campus
Would the development decrease the number of HMOs locally?
• NO
• All the evidence indicates that student halls of residence act as a hub which attracts HMOs to the area.
• Any decrease in the number of HMOs would be only in more outlying areas of Canterbury where concentration is not a problem anyway.