City centre 'saturated' with student accommodation

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Coventry city centre has become "saturated" with student accommodation, a councillor has claimed, following the approval of plans for a purpose-built student block that will add up to 400 beds to the city. The proposed new accommodation block next to University of Warwick attracted a petition of more than 100 signatures and dozens of letters in opposition. BBC CWR's Lorna Bailey spoke to Rob Johnson, Senior Analyst at the think-tank Centre for Cities, who has done research on the impact of universities for city centre regeneration.