Yes we live in an urban town, and yes we go to an urban university, but why aren’t we at least attempting to make the campus feel more homely? In general it is a dead, cold, concrete graveyard. New seating has been provided in the courtyard between the CAB and the CSB, which once had some grass to it prior to the building, and that is cold dead concrete…

In the modern ‘green’ world that we live in, this University is going backwards and taking green areas with wooden seating away and replacing it with concrete. The Students’ Union is attempting to change that.

The space being put aside for the safety bus and any disabled parking is for easy access to the building for the disabled, unless you’d rather they had to travel around the back of the Union to get in the safety bus?

The plans are practical, we are willing to undergo certain compromises, but the lecturers not being able to park on campus just isn’t enough. Very few people in the jobmarket have the capacity to park where they work, it’s a part of life. Also, the lecturers have their own union to deal with their parking, OUR priority is the students, not lecturers.

Previous claims that the car park doesn’t benefit students are a falicy – a numnber of talented and well respected lecturers have chosen to leave the University for positions closer to home, at least partly because their commute is difficult, and they have to leave the house so early to arrive by 8 to get a parking space.

The fact that the plan is “get rid of all the parking space except for the bus because that’s ours and there’s nowhere else to put it” shows how ridiculous and impractical these plans are.