Listen to students: Nottingham City Council, Article Four and the LAPP

This is a video outlining the student perspective to Article Four Direction and the LAPP (Land and Planning Policies Development Plan) in Nottingham.

The video has been created to lobby executive councillors and generate further media interest, ahead of the vote on Article Four on the 22nd November. We encourage students to share the video, tweet it at local officials and the council to increase viewings and pressure. Please also feel free to leave comments below the video with your thoughts.

*NEW LATEST UPDATE* http://youtu.be/VNG0ETdSudA

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Article Four
• NUS
• LAPP

[RaNdoMLiFe91]

I'd like to see Nottingham function without it's student population!

[kuvitteellinen]

I barely even know any students who throw disruptive parties; everyone's either working to earn money to keep them out of their overdraft or busy doing coursework. If I can afford to pay my rent, I have the same right to live where I do as the long-term residents. And we can't afford to pay £110 per week. The council is being absolutely ridiculous by not listening to us.

[MrSadmore]

@RaNdoMLiFe91 if you had a degree you would probably have known that you needed to use 'its', not 'it's', when discussing the student population... students have the same rights to the city and the next time you go to the Doctors remember that he/she got a degree from a university much like the one you are trying to segregate...

[HorrorShow100]

@MissLathwood This folks. Listen to this and stop crying your eyes out..

[sam350999]

Do students actually go to University or just cry about how unfair their lives are?

[MrSuperjevans]

despite the fact that we don't pay council tax, the population of students in Lenton does nothing but prosper the area. How many of the local take-away restaurants or the corner shops, local businesses ran by local people, would survive if the student population of Lenton was to diminish? Not only would the students suffer from this, but the local business people, to whom students are the most lucrative. Students have a right to be heard, which is why I am 100% against this.

[MissLathwood]

@dusqi Local or central, its still the government who ends up having to pay for these statutory services if the students live in lenton. By the way, I am not pro moving students in to some hideous apartment block, I am very much against, I just don't believe it's some anti-student initiative.

[MissLathwood]

@dusqi Exactly, what would be better than the central government having to dish out more money to the local council which have to, by law, provide a certain amount of services to the local community i.e. bin collection police etc all in order to subsidize student living? Well, what would be better for the government, who have a serious deficit to manage, would be to move students into high rise accommodation and move people in who do have to pay council tax so they no longer have to subsidize.

[LightaxL]

Fuck it, lets riot

[dusqi]

@MissLathwood The central government pays the local council the equivalent of council tax on behalf of those who are exempt. The parking charges just for students are about money (£70 for a student parking permit vs. £0 for a residents' permit) - this proposal is just about not liking students.

[itstompo2009]

@MissLathwood Surely offer the high rise accommodation to other/new people (e.g. first time buyers) instead of moving students out of their communities?

[itstompo2009]

Seal the Deal