SLIDE 1 Studentification in Loughborough 2013
Professor Darren Smith
Researchers: Alexis Alamel, Stacey Balsdon & Dr Chloe Kinton
Loughborough University
SLIDE 2 Remit: 6 questions to consider
“1. Historical information / patterns - scene setting, possibly back to the 1950s and the development of the University. Any information that gives perspective for the period 1994 - 98, and the impact on the community around the Storer Road Area 1999.
- 2. More recently numbers have fallen in the SARG area, but expanded in other areas - have
you any examples of this happening in other areas of the country? 3. Spatial patterns - evidence of a 'domino' effect. One property becomes student accommodation and then others around it do too? Or Street by Street? 4. The picture now, where students are located. How you have approached measuring these figures? Information would be welcome in respect of tool kits used and the results. 5. Any information re purpose-built accommodation, both on and off campus. 6. Patterns of ownership - landlords, parents for their children and sub-letting other rooms, groups of students.”
SLIDE 3 Planning for current trends of change
- Increasing demand for on-campus halls of residence from Years 2 and 3 >
good student experiences in halls during Year 1
- Relatively low demand for off-campus, commercial, Purpose-built Student
Accommodation (PBSA)
- Off-campus geographies of HMO are changing and are dynamic:
– Destudentification within Storer and outer-areas of the town (and Burleigh to a lesser extent) – On-going studentification of Kingfisher and Forest Road areas – Why?
- Changing student accommodation preferences and expectations of higher-quality
accommodation and management / proximity to campus
- Profitability for landlords and investors – bigger and newer houses?
- Changing economic climate: student debt and tuition fees?
- More home-based / regional students?
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- 1. Limited historical analysis
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HESA data
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2001 and 2011 GB census data
Lower layer super output area 2001 2011 % change Ashby East 007A 689 1093 404 increase 58.64% increase Ashby West 007B 3060 2648 412 decrease 13.46% decrease Dishley East 001A 32 No data Gorse Covert 001B 35 97 62 increase 177.14% increase Dishley West No data No data Garendon East 004A 75 103 28 increase 37.33% increase Thorpe Acre West 004B 43 57 14 increase 32.56% increase Thorpe Acre East 004C 66 95 29 increase 43.94% increase Garendon West 004D 78 103 25 increase 32.05% increase Bell Foundry 002A 116 103 13 decrease 11.21% decrease Canal South 002B 67 107 40 increase 59.70% increase Central Station 002C 62 95 33 increase 53.23% increase Tuckers Road No data No data Toothill Road 002D 166 222 56 increase 33.74% increase Derby Road East 002E 91 266 175 increase 192.31% increase Midland Station 002F 78 86 8 increase 10.26% increase Meadow Lane 002G 47 79 32 increase 68.09% increase Nanpantan East No data No data Nanpantan West 010A 56 61 5 increase 8.93% increase Holywell No data No data Outwoods West 010B 63 35 28 decrease 44.44% decrease Outwoods East 010C 36 55 19 increase 52.78% increase Outwoods South 010D 41 43 2 increase 4.88% increase Outwoods North 010E 223 341 118 increase 52.92% increase Shelthorpe South 009A 36 57 21 increase 58.33% increase Shelthorpe North 009B 57 80 23 increase 40.35% increase Shelthorpe West 009C 49 85 36 increase 73.47% increase Woodthorpe 009D 40 73 33 increase 822.5% increase Centre South 009E 82 332 250 increase 304.88% increase Southfields South 009F 125 260 135 increase 108% increase Centre West 003A 606 1228 662 increase 102.64% increase Southfields North 003B 521 884 363 increase 69.67% increase Knightthopre Road 003C 69 108 39 increase 56.52% inrease Rosebery 003D 812 1157 345 increase 42.49% increase Oxford Street 003E 868 871 3 increase 0.35% increase Warwick Way 003F 51 87 36 increase 70.59% increase
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689 > 1093 students 3060 > 2648 students
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82 > 332 students 606 > 1238 students
SLIDE 9 Output areas
Output areas - STORER 2001 2011 % change E00130505 241 299 58 increase 24.07% increase E00173304 No data 207 E00130512 69 164 95 increase 137.69% increase E00130516 218 174 44 decrease 20.18% decrease E00130517 208 253 45 increase 21.64% increase E00130504 394 384 10 decrease 2.54% decrease E00130519 48 60 12 increase 25% increase Output areas - BURLEIGH 2001 2011 % change E00130488 52 316 264 increase 507.69% increase E00130493 174 79 95 decrease 54.60% decrease E00130487 122 294 172 increase 140.98% increase E00130503 173 195 22 increase 12.72% increase E00130489 80 213 133 increase 166.25% increase
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students in some neighbourhoods: destudentification
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Loughborough – total students by area
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Paget Street – photograph taken October 2011
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Landscapes of destudentification
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Destudentification
SLIDE 15 Source: SARG data and university term-time address data 2011/12
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2011-12
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12,457 students with a LE11 address (out of 17,209)
LE11 1 = 368 LE11 2 = 823 LE11 3 = 7,685 LE11 4 = 3,581
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Different geographies: Census wards
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Student areas in Loughborough?
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General patterns: 2011/12
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Micro-geographies (output areas) – compare with 2011 GB census
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Level of study
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Male:female ratios
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Department of study
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Year of study
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- 4. Purpose-built accommodation
- Off-campus
- On-campus
SLIDE 31 Off-campus PBSA
- “The student blocks in the town are definitely
struggling to fill their accommodation. I know that a lot of them are worried by the voids that they have” [Landlord 2].
- “We are half full” [PBSA Provider 4].
- “I think they were popular when they were first
built, but after a year or two they begin to lose their appeal, because you hear that they are all really struggling at the moment” [Letting agent 1].
- “All rooms aren’t full and they haven’t been for
several years” [PBSA provider 6].
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Off-campus PBSA
SLIDE 33 Survey of first year students
Total Population % of Population Survey Population % of Population % of Total Population Response Rate Response Rate On Campus Catered 2354 44% 118 44% 5% 118/347 34.0% On Campus Self-Catered 1672 32% 86 32% 5% 86/253 33.9% Off Campus Self-Catered 1321 24% 65 24% 5% 65/210 30.9% Total 5347 100% 269 100% 5% 269/810 33.2%
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On-campus halls of residence
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On-campus, halls of residence
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HoR
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Weekly rent (inclusive) paying next year
Maximum weekly rent £0-£69 £70-£79 £80-£89 £90-£99 £100+ £0-£69 5 1 £70-£79 24 19 1 1 £80-£89 27 42 7 1 2 £90-£99 12 23 10 3 £100+ 12 9 3 8 Unknown 6 18 8 4 23
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changing geographies of studentification: planning for change?
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Where are you living next year?
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Storer
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Burleigh
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Kingfisher
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Storer
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Burleigh
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Kingfisher
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Storer
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Burleigh
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Kingfisher
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Studentification & Kingfisher
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Non-residence in Loughborough
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Student survey 2013
SLIDE 71 Conclusion
- SCRUTINY PANEL: To what extent is
the Borough Council successful in achieving its objective of managing student occupancy in Loughborough?
SLIDE 72 Conclusion: a more robust evidence-base of student occupancy / HMO would be beneficial
- House by house, GIS-based system - which
is automatically updated (annually) and enables comparisons of annual changes
- Maintains anonymity and confidentiality of
people
- In-built flexibility for planning – can be
adapted for different geographies / different thresholds / different buffer points / circles
- Integrate a variety of datasets: university
term-time addresses, Student Union, council tax, electoral registers, etc
SLIDE 73 Why the need?
- Inefficient use of staff / time resources to
update current incomplete datasets
- Accurate data / evidence-bases are needed
to inform policy formulation / strategies
- Expensive surveys only provide brief snap-
shots in time
- Datasets are quickly out-of-date and non-
comparative over time
- Partial understandings of student occupancy
are provided
