Selly Oak MP calls for review of city’s student housing market – Birmingham
A Birmingham MP wants a root and branch review of the student housing market in the city as neighbourhoods are being blighted by piecemeal development.
MP Steve McCabe says parts of his Selly Oak constituency are swamped with student accommodation at the same time as further planning applications are being approved.
As well as purpose-built apartment blocks, many family homes lining Selly Oak’s terraced streets have been converted and extended to cram in students – a move which led to the area being likened to a Brazilian ‘favela’ last year …