Residents called for a housing cap amid fears of ‘Dairy Holylands’

Residents living near Maggi Campus of Ulster University have called the council to captivate the number of houses in several businesses (HMOs) approved in the area.

It comes after a report in search of the expansion of student numbers at LondonDery Campus Was published last year.

Residents concerned around Maggi said that most of the approved HMOs were centered near the campus and were incompatible with the rest of the city.

A spokesperson for a Dairy City and Straiben District Council said that new planning policies would implement security measures to ensure proposals for HMOs.

The report said that the increase of 10,000 students by 2032 will help in addressing the regional imbalance and Become “transformative” for the region.

However, it was noted that the quantity and purpose-manufactured student housing of privately hired houses should be increased.

In many businesses, a house is a property rented by at least three people that share facilities like bathroom and kitchen, also known as “house share”.

Tenants should be from more than one home as it should be an HMO.

All HMOs should be licensed by their local council until a temporary discount notice is effective.

The NIHMO unit of the Belfast City Council conducts the regulation of HMOS from each of the 11 councils in Northern Ireland.

Kathleen Feni, who lives on a staircase on a five -minute walk from the campus, said that she feels that “as a road (she) has been known for forty years, disappearing”.

“Now there are fewer families here. More HMOs are bouncing and I think the atmosphere has changed,” he said.

“We don’t always know our neighbors; it can be noise at night and the worst is that traffic and crowd.”

“If my next door house became HMO, I will consider leaving the region, even if it will break my heart,” she said.

According to the HMO license register, the dairy currently has 212 HMO properties.

Out of that clan, more than 200 BT48 (Citicide) are in postcode.

The BT47 (Waterside) postcode is seven.

Cram is calling for an immediate cap of 10% on HMOS in the neighbor of the University and then a long -term hat is adopted after adopting the council’s local development plan.

Patrick Gill, a resident of Park Avenue for 74 years, feels that HMO weakens the spirit of the HMO.

“Local neighbors are disappearing,” he said.

“Extension is good for the city but where people are living, they should be considered.”

Mr. Gill said that people were “worried about the region that became another Holyland”.

He said, “HMO needs to be spread out or no long -term residents would have survived,” he said.

He also said that the number of HMOs decreased parking.

Argyle Street is directly contrary to the premises and most homes have students HMOs.

Lia coffee from Fermanagh, and County Math to Sera Fitzpatric, final year nursing students and have been at Argil Street for the last two years.

Lia said that the proximity of the road to the university was a clear draw for students, but it was revealed that more housing is required.

“We had to be so quick to see and secure a house. If you leave it too late, it becomes difficult to find anywhere,” he said.

“I would say that this is difficult for residents with some students because it can be noise.

“But I think there should be better student facilities, although we are in a city and it is difficult with space,” he said.

A meeting for residents is held at the university on Thursday under the chairmanship of Stephen Kelly of Maggi Taskforce.

Prior to the profit, people have grown in an area in an area in which the increasing number of HMOs has been seen and said that “balance” is needed.

“Residents are not against the expansion of HMO or university – they actually welcome it – what they are concerned about is a quick change of residential character of the region,” he said.

“They do not want something to grow quickly like Holyland that will completely change it.”

Emeritus Paddy Gray, Professor of Housing at Ulster University, co-actor a report in Holylands in Belfast.

He said that there were housing models that worked for both residents and students in other universities cities.

Prof. Gray stated that residents’ approach is important in finding “an acceptable balance”.

He said, “Students can also bring a lot of money in areas, especially for small businesses,” he said.

A spokesman for the council said that some restrictions have been proposed in the context of the number of rooms permissible in the HMO property and the minimum square foot size of the property.

There are also guidelines to ensure that HMOs do not affect the character of the local region.

He said that a workforce, including political representatives and statutory agencies, has also been established to discuss issues, for residents.

At a Planning Committee meeting on 22 January, the members agreed that all applications for HMOs, where they lead to more than 10% in a road, would be brought to the committee for consideration.

A spokesperson of the Ulster University said that “the student needs to support and support permanent development in the number of students in the city”.

The spokesperson said that the university worked with its neighbors in North Belfast and would do the same in the dairy.