Transcript Durham University Residential Accommodation Strategy 2012

Durham University
Residential Accommodation Strategy
2012 - 2020
Executive Summary
Prof. Graham Towl – Deputy Warden
Prof.Tom Allen
- Head of Estates: The Colleges
Paulina Lubacz
–Treasurer
Harvey Dowdy
- Assistant Director Estates & Buildings
University Strategies
• University Estate Strategy 2012-20
• Urgent need for a Residential Accommodation
Strategy (RAS) identified ∂
• RAS submitted to Council July 2012 - endorsed
The College Estate
• Aim: sustain a ‘collegiate university’
• Collegiate Model ‘The Durham Difference’ USP
• Colleges as ‘scholarly∂ communities’
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Student support and success
Leadership, employability
Support and guide recruitment
Loyalty and alumni
Research activity
College Communities
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16 Colleges (varying sizes optimum to be determined)
All students are members
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Residential Estate – current position:
– All freshers accommodated in Durham; the majority in Stockton
– Approaching half of postgrads’ in Durham; around a quarter in
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Stockton
– About a quarter of undergraduate ‘returners’ in Durham; very few in
Stockton
+ Fellows and Staff
+ bedrooms + social spaces + dining / catering + external areas
(sport and recreation)
RAS: Capacity and Quality
• Quality: refurbishment programme
(Colleges Division estate to be improved to Cat.A / B – recent work at
Castle; Grey, Trevelyan, Hatfield 2012/13 etc.)
• Capacity: target in terms of proportion in residence
∂ all starting postgrads’
– All freshers; available for
– Enough returners for strong scholarly community
JCR Presidents’ Committee: serving livers-out – less effective
National Student Survey: Colleges with lowest proportion returners => lowest
NSS participation
(key indicator 3rd party league tables)
Castle Refurbishment
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Existing Accommodation Capacity
• For the 2012/13 academic year, around 6,600 bedspaces will be available in University
accommodation:
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 Around 5,700 in Durham
City colleges
 Around 900 in Stockton colleges
This excludes decant for refurbishments
Student Numbers
• By 2015/16, modest growth to:
 around 14,000 students in Durham City (an
additional c.500)
 around 2,500 students at Stockton (an additional
c.500)
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• By 2019/20,
 around 15,300 students in Durham City (+ 1,800
from 2012 baseline)
 around 3,400 students at Stockton (+1,400 from
2012 baseline)
Proportion of livers-in without more capacity:
70%
Students in Univ accom
60%
Capacity target
range
50%
40%
∂
30%
20%
10%
0%
2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 2019/20
Durham City
Queen's Campus
Total
Capacity targets
2015/16
50%
70%
Durham
City
1,250
4,050
Stockton
730
1,250
NB. this will still not allow for decant space for refurbishment or redevelopment
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2019/20
50%
70%
Durham
City
1,950
5,000
Stockton
1,150
1,850
UEC/Council decisions
• Target range proportion(s) of livers-in:
Minimum 50%
(an increase from the 43% currently accommodated)
• Resulting need for new capacity
i.e.
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Small increased student population overall
+ desire to accommodate more existing students
+ provision of decant space to facilitate refurbishment
• All accommodation to be on collegiate model
• Immediate decisions: specific opportunities
Demand - Key Conclusions
• We are at capacity in terms of our ability to offer a
Durham residential experience to our students – in the
short term returners and post-graduates will be
‘squeezed-out’ by first year undergraduates
• By 2015/16 demand demonstrated for 1,000 bed
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spaces delivered as Colleges
at each campus in order to
maintain supply at around 43%
• There is a medium/long-term need to increase our
residential capacity
Supply - Key Assumptions / Constraints (1)
• Internal and external approval processes (statutory
planning) will not allow delivery of a substantial number
of new bed spaces on DU-owned land before 2017 – 18
(whereas needed by 2015/16)
(sites investigated include Hild/Bede, Green Lane, Elvet Waterside,
and infill sites at Hatfield and around
the Hill Colleges - also Ushaw
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College: infill c.200 spaces
Agreed that DU / DCC will work together to deliver a Masterplan for
the Hild / Bede site)
• Any new developments will be designed on the DU
collegiate model (as opposed ‘Halls of Residence’)
Supply - Key Assumptions / Constraints (2)
The DU Masterplan (2006) used to identify suitable sites
for expansion :
(1) – on the north / south axis in Durham City
= Mount Oswald
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(2) to the north of the River Tees in Stockton
= North Shore
Durham City – Site Availability
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Stockton – Site Availability
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Implications of DU Non-Investment
• DU will not be able to meet ‘standstill’ targets for housing
students by 2015/16
• The private sector will intervene (possibly by 2015/16) – but to
develop accommodation blocks not Colleges with associated
student support, not necessarily in appropriate locations
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• Lack of private-rented accommodation - limited at both
campuses forcing students to live further away (particularly from
Stockton), adversely affecting the student experience and the
local economy, also creates demand for conversion of
properties to HMOs