On Monday 4th December at 6.30pm in the Moulsecoomb Leisure Centre there will be a meeting of the Moulsecoomb Community Forum.
Items on the agenda include Lewes Road development, the proposed stadium at Falmer, environmental issues and students.
If the fixed catchment areas goes through, then families may leave, and when they do, more students may move in creating an imbalance between permanent residents and people passing through the area. Some residents are very concerned about this.
If this and/or fixed catchments concerns you, please come to the meeting.
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And this 'imbalance' between students and permanent residents is a problem why exactly???
You would need to ask the residents who are concerned about this "imbalance" as you put it.
Personally, I am most concerned about the standard of the school and the notion of a fixed catchment.
However - in an attempt to answer your question and to try to imagine why this is concerning residents, while I have nothing against students personally - the majority do not stay in the Moulsecoomb/Bevendean area. They are passing through, perhaps staying here for 2/3 years. Which means they are not making a long-term investment of time and energy into the community.
There are pros and cons to their presence, and that is a con.
In addition, the presence of more and more students in an area is perhaps a symptom of other problems. People move out of an area - because the schools are bad for example - the price of property falls, landlords buy, and then, in a university town, rent to students.
Moreover, "imbalance" would suggest that something is not in balance, i.e. there is some disharmony somewhere that is upsetting the smooth running of the system. So yes, any "imbalance" is not a particularly good thing in a community. But utopian "balance" is impossible to achieve. It depends how "imbalanced" a situation gets.
So, Anonymous, do you think it would be good for the area if there were more students, and why?
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