Do halls allow student parking where you are?

tomstickland

I've just been reading a quite ridiculous article in the local paper:
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucester/headlines/Meeting-Oxstalls-parking-row/article-666947-detail/article.html

"The university tells the students they are not allowed to bring cars onto campus but a lot of them still drive and leave their cars on residential streets. That's not counting the ones who commute."

Isn't it highly likely that a proportion of students will travel to the site using the most common form of transport?

I've had a look at their accomodation guide.
"In line with local government requirements and due to lack of availability of car parking spaces, the university cannot permit residents in halls to bring vehicles with them".

Seems really stupid to me. I can only guess that it simultaneously ticked a sustainability box and saved money.


EDIT: I'm referring to parking in a halls of residence, not on the main campus.

sophisticated.

No, students aren't allowed to park on campus at my university (my halls are on campus) but those who live in the halls off campus have car parking.

PasturesNew

Cambridge University used to not allow students have cars even off campus. They couldn't have one at all.

Stardust

We have space in the local mall car park 8am to 5pm and then we can park on campus 5pm to 8am. We have to get a bus (uni own or tfl) between the mall car park and uni. I wish the mall was better lit but the uni bus drive will wait until your in the car before moving off.

Rikki

Nottingham University

Students living halls are not allowed to have a car on campus.

Students living off campus have to buy a permit to park on campus.

Lokolo

Southampton has a no use but for visitors car park (max of 3 days) on campus. They say you should use residential streets.

My uni where I am based there is a carpark anyone can use which is free (on uni land), theres no point closing it really, its out of town and plenty of spaces. In stoke however, being a city campus they have university parking by halls but by uni staff only (it is a city centre after all).

Rikki

tomstickland wrote: »

I've just been reading a quite ridiculous article in the local paper:
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucester/headlines/Meeting-Oxstalls-parking-row/article-666947-detail/article.html

"The university tells the students they are not allowed to bring cars onto campus but a lot of them still drive and leave their cars on residential streets. That's not counting the ones who commute."

Isn't it highly likely that a proportion of students will travel to the site using the most common form of transport?

I've had a look at their accomodation guide.
"In line with local government requirements and due to lack of availability of car parking spaces, the university cannot permit residents in halls to bring vehicles with them".

Seems really stupid to me. I can only guess that it simultaneously ticked a sustainability box and saved money.

If you think about it logically, if all the students in halls have their cars parked on the campus and they are there all term seven days a week where are all the students travelling in each day going to park their cars?

Most students staying in halls are young nineteen year olds being dropped off by their tearful parents.

Lokolo

More like 18 tbh. But yeh same difference

Gingernutmeg

At my uni, you weren't allowed to park on campus at all. It was permits only and even people who really needed them struggled to get them. They were a bit more flexible during the holidays but during term time, pigs would fly before a student was allowed to part on campus. Lots of people still used cars though, and I did feel a bit for the local residents. Most of the roads around my uni were permit only but the local estate wasn't, so everyone would park there. It did cause more than a bit of friction but for a lot of people, the public transport wasn't a viable option.

Tommy99

That is universities for you, I am at Bournemouth and up until last term students were alowed to park the uni car park. The reason we do this is due to the university being so far from halls, and a very poor bus system.

"Residents say it could be the only way to stop students clogging up the streets around Elmbridge"

Once again the students mean nothing, resident do not realise how much money student bring in to a community. I think all student should go on a no spending strike.

"The university imposes on all students living in halls that vehicles are not permitted.

This is what i do not understand, all students are over 18. All student would have been driving for a while, giving them there inderpendance. Personally, when i lived with my parents i needed my own transport to get anywhere. From 16 i was on the road, going to university meant losing my inderpendance and relying of public transport which i terrible.

I can understand that if there is a good transport system like Southampton's then, there is no reason to have a car. Unless you don't want to sit next to the smelly and dirty people yuk!!!

As for your uni, they need to look at the bigger picture which is not yellow lines every where, forces people to get parking tickets. But actually put in place a clean, reliable transport system. this is what is needed...

Thats my rant for the day. I like uni people, i hate to people that run them.

Tom

Soot2006

Sussex Uni also

Students living halls are not allowed to have a car on campus.

Students living off campus have to buy a permit to park on campus.