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    Lone Ranger. wrote:
    loosehead wrote:
    Sotonians_lets_pull_


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    What a great idea for that site. This will definitely be a big boost to the local economy, and help to reduce pressure to convert residential properties for families into HMO's.

    Of course it could lead to falls in property prices, as landlords renting to students find it harder to fill their properties, so expect so complaints from student landlords.

    This will make rental properties and properties for sale in southampton more affordable, which in these times has to be a good thing.

    It will also concentrate a large number of students away from residential properties and reduce noise disturbance suffered by locals.

    The halls themselves will have staff and tutors which will help to police the noise levels in their immediate area.

    An excellent project, I think most locals should support it, once they think about it a bit.
    My post was trying to see it from both sides but I really agree with this & would like to see more like it.
    I agree with other posts where if the students ( I quite like) lived here instead of HMO's these landlords would have to lower their rents & make the private market more open to the people of this city so I agree with everything you've said
    Loosehead ............. How can you be against this project at 12-20pm .. then because your Tory chum is all for it, and you dont want to upset him .... You actually change your mind at 12-26pm ........ and now you love it
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    You are a joke.
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    Tory Lemming
    Before you slag someone down & call them names you should read their posts.
    At no time did I say I was against this development.
    I said the residents of the Polygon area should try to get something from it as many people do when a development like this is planned on their doorstep.
    I know a Rugby club has got a promise of youth team (structure) funding if they don't oppose a development next to them.
    I honestly believe this should be more than first year students but a proper student village for all years & if it is all the better.
    Lone Ranger one day you'll wake up & take your foot out of your mouth then you won't be such a left wing sheep baaa"
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£70m scheme for University of Southampton student halls in city centre

9:40am Thursday 8th March 2012 in Hampshire Business Photograph of the Author By Matt Smith , Politics and business reporter

How Mayflower Halls could look, with the Mayflower Theatre on the right How Mayflower Halls could look, with the Mayflower Theatre on the right

A PROPOSED flagship office development to headquarter a major international firm in the heart of Southampton could now become a £70m village for 1,000 students.

Developers, in partnership with the University of Southampton, want to build three blocks of student flats up to 15 storeys high at the boarded up Mayflower Plaza site off Commercial Road.

The student village, complete with a gym, small supermarket, 400 cycle racks and basement parking, would face the council’s Civic Centre and new £15m SeaCity Museum.

Plans for an £80m development of 180 apartments, a striking seven-storey office block and hotel, called Mayflower Point, were given the go-ahead by councillors nearly four years ago. But a failure to find tenants for the offices has left it on the drawing board.

Osborne Developments and landowner Terrace Hill will tomorrow launch a consultation on plans for the university development, dubbed Mayflower Halls, before they submit a planning application in the spring.

Osborne development director David Sarson said: “Being close to the station and the bus link to the main university campus make it particularly suitable for student accommodation and we would expect a boost to the local economy as a result.”

Caroline Court, from Southampton University, which has 23,000 students, said it was committed to increasing the number of hall places.

She said: “This site with its excellent transport links is ideal. It is altogether fitting that the university returns to having a presence in the city centre, where it was originally founded 150 years ago.”

Nigel Wakefield, from Terrace Hill, said the development would “create a catalyst for further regeneration of the area”.

City council leader Councillor Royston Smith said that more student accommodation, easing pressure on family homes in the city, was welcome but the design would need to be “sympathetic” with the council’s new SeaCity Museum.

The V-shaped site – bounded by Havelock Road, Commercial Road and West Park Road – stood empty since the 1980s and was demolished in 2003.

Terrace Hill bought it for £7.4m in 2007.

• A public exhibition of the plans will be held at the Mayflower Theatre from 11am to 5pm tomorrow and from 9am to 11am on Saturday.

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