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‘Additional university students should be accommodated in city centre’

written by cassoscoop January 10, 2022
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UU’s Magee Campus in Derry

THE SDLP’s Sinead McLaughlin has said that additional university students attending Ulster University’s Magee campus should be accommodated close to Derry’s city centre.

She has written to Ulster University Vice Chancellor Paul Bartholomew urging him that new accommodation to be constructed for incoming undergraduate life and health sciences students should be situated between the campus and the city centre.

The Foyle MLA wrote: “Our city will benefit substantially from the intake of new students. That benefit will increase even further if the new accommodation needed for them is located in or close to the city centre.

“More specifically, if students live between campus and city centre this will have significant positive impact on the commercial heart of the city, through its retail and hospitality sectors.

“I need hardly remind you of the hard times they have suffered over the last two years.

“It is essential that core institutions such as the university work together with the public and private sectors, in order to maximise the combined impact.

“I suggest this would in this instance be best achieve by providing student accommodation where it will have the most economic impact, which would be close of Derry’s city centre.

“Moreover, this would provide the best student experience by giving students easier access to the benefits of urban life, with close proximity to retail facilitities and evening activities.”

The Foyle MLA says: “I am urging the Ulster University Vice Chancellor, its Council and Senate to consider the potential benefits of their actions to the wider city.

“Our retail and hospitality sectors have suffered terribly through the pandemic, and locating new student accommodation close to the city centre would provide a real and much needed boost to our commercial sectors.

“This, in turn, would help to safeguard existing jobs, as well as creating new jobs. I hope Ulster University will accept the logic of my argument.

“While my party and I have campaigned for years for the expansion of Magee on the basis of the skills that will be created that will benefit the city and so will create well paid jobs, it is also very important that the expansion provides wider economic benefits through higher spending in the city and on local businesses.

“That, too, will create more jobs.”

‘Additional university students should be accommodated in city centre’ was last modified: January 10th, 2022 by cassoscoop

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