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Student housing supply remains tight
Less than a fifth of London’s 268,000 full-time students are able to obtain purpose-built bedspaces, a report shows. Meanwhile, the pressure on student housing appears to be growing, the report noted. The University and College Admissions Service is reporting a 22 per cent increase in applications for the next academic year. As student numbers studying at London’s universities continue to grow, the supply of accommodation remains tight, the London Student Housing survey from property consultan...
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Datacentre gets hot water into Helsinki
Heated water resulting from cooling a datacentre in Helsinki is being used to help provide heat for up to 1,000 local flats. Finnish IT company Academica installed the 2MW database server in an empty Second World War bomb shelter beneath the 19th-century Orthodox Uspenski Cathedral in the city centre, according to a report in the Guardian....
New BHA chief urges for new thinking
Ufi Ibrahim, the new chief executive of the British Hospitality Association has called for new thinking and fresh action under the new government. Formerly on the World Travel and Tourism Council, Ibrahim announced her vision in an introductory message to members. ‘As demand for leisure, travel and recreation continues to grow across the world, t...
Council scraps virtual town hall
Tameside Council has abandoned a virtual council office that it had created online, after admitting that it couldn’t justify the £36,000 costs. The council ‘rented’ an island on Second Life – a virtual world where people and businesses lead an online existence – in order to encourage young people and people with mobility problems to access the cou...
