City council turning city into a dosshouse
THE former Marks and Spencer Home store in Lister Gate, Nottingham, will be redeveloped into student accommodation (“M&S Home to become homes for students”, Post, December 7).
Nottingham City Council will approve of anything to do with students, disregarding any objections or concerns raised by the public.
Former family homes are now student accommodation with what once were front rooms now bedrooms. Makes it look like a Third World country.
These converted older properties were not designed to be HMOS for students.
HMOS are the modern-day equivalent of Victorian dosshouses, cramming many into a property for maximum profit – a big step backward.
Nottingham central is now a huge dosshouse with council approval. Shame on them.
The councillors and MPS and others who support HMOS etc do not live in these areas and have no concept of the serious problems caused by student antisocial behaviour. They are completely out of touch with reality.
The Arboretum area in Nottingham used to be a residential area but no longer has the residential feel to it so the council needs to reassess what they are saying. I’m fed up being spoken down to by these people in Loxley House as if I was born yesterday.
They don’t like it when people complain about students. They don’t care about them destroying people’s lives with their idiotic uncaring, selfish, unruly behaviour.
The area now is a hell hole. It might look nice to outsiders but not from within. It looks filthy most of the time a tell-tale sign of it being a student zone.
We have to pay council tax to see all of this filth around.
Parts of North Sherwood Street are full of wet leaves as it seems the council has given up on cleaning around this area.
It can’t be lack of money when they can redirect £15m of Government money to another department and not notice.
Labour are not fit to look after the public purse or fit to govern.
Richard Mikula
Nottingham