This week it has been announced that a popular city centre car park is being replaced with student accommodation for 1000. Clearly renting accommodation to students is a better money spinner than a car park, but then again, with everything in the centre being replaced by student accommodation, then people will soon have no need to go into the centre.
Near to the Belgrade Theatre, planning permission had been given for a block containing a 4* hotel (not sure why we need one in Coventry, but it would have been nice) and luxury apartments. This has been in the pipeline for many years now, today it was announced that we would no longer be getting the luxury hotel and apartments, but more student accommodation.
I have a suggestion - why not make the whole of the city centre the campus of Coventry University? Move all the students in the outlying flats and rented houses inside the ring road releasing the suburbs back to non-students. The general public could still use the facilities in the centre, such as the theatre and the ice rink, much like they do on the University of Warwick campus on the outskirts of the city, the Arts Centre there is well known across the country and shows are open to all.
Does anyone else feel like their city is being slowly absorbed into the local university?
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