Bid to free up student homes to ease green belt crisis – Bath
Radical plans to force all first and final year students at the city’s universities to live on campus or in purpose built accommodation have been put forward to protect the green belt around Bath.
Opposition politicians have say the move is needed to free up houses occupied by students so there can be no possible justification for a further 2,000 new homes to be built on countryside on the edge of the city.
Bath and North East Somerset Council has been controversially told by the Government to find space for 21,300 new homes over the next two decades, but has rejected this target in favour of a lower one of 15,500 in its new core strategy blueprint …