Studentification in Loughborough 2013 Professor Darren Smith - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Studentification in Loughborough 2013 Professor Darren Smith Researchers: Alexis Alamel, Stacey Balsdon & Dr Chloe Kinton Loughborough University

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.”

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?

1. Limited historical analysis

HESA data

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

2001 to 2011 689 > 1093 students 3060 > 2648 students

2001 to 2011 82 > 332 students 606 > 1238 students

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

2. Falling numbers of students in some neighbourhoods: destudentification

Loughborough – total students by area

photograph taken October 2011 Paget Street –

Landscapes of destudentification

Destudentification

Source: SARG data and university term-time address data 2011/12

2011-12

4. The picture now 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

Different geographies: Census wards

Student areas in Loughborough?

General patterns: 2011/12

Micro-geographies (output areas) – compare with 2011 GB census

Level of study

Male:female ratios

Department of study

Year of study

4. Purpose-built accommodation -Off-campus -On-campus

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].

Off-campus PBSA

Survey of first year students Total % of Survey % of % of Total Response Response Population Population Population Population Population Rate Rate On Campus 2354 44% 118 44% 5% 118/347 34.0% Catered On Campus 1672 32% 86 32% 5% 86/253 33.9% Self-Catered Off Campus 1321 24% 65 24% 5% 65/210 30.9% Self-Catered Total 5347 100% 269 100% 5% 269/810 33.2%

On-campus halls of residence

On-campus, halls of residence

HoR

Bartering Weekly rent (inclusive) paying next year Maximum weekly rent £0-£69 £70-£79 £80-£89 £90-£99 £100+ £0-£69 5 1 0 0 0 £70-£79 24 19 1 1 0 £80-£89 27 42 7 1 2 £90-£99 12 23 10 3 0 £100+ 0 12 9 3 8 Unknown 6 18 8 4 23

• Student preferences and changing geographies of studentification: planning for change?

Where are you living next year?

Storer

Burleigh

Kingfisher

Storer

Burleigh

Kingfisher

Storer

Burleigh

Kingfisher

Studentification & Kingfisher

Non-residence in Loughborough

Student survey 2013

Conclusion • SCRUTINY PANEL: To what extent is the Borough Council successful in achieving its objective of managing student occupancy in Loughborough?

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

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