Inside
Out - students for neighbours
Inside
Out, Monday 12 January 2003, 91热爆 ONE (East Midlands), 7.30-8.00pm
This
week Inside Out exposes the misery some people have suffered because
their communities have been taken over by students.
In
some streets the majority of houses have been snapped up by landlords
and converted into student bed-sits.
Those
living in the remaining privately owned houses have found themselves
surrounded by noise and disruption.
Inside
Out goes onto the streets of Loughborough and Lincoln
to capture the behaviour of students.
It's
behaviour that hasn't changed over the years and is usually alcohol
fuelled in many cases, as youngsters away from home discover their
freedom for the first time.
But
it's this behaviour that has driven local people away from their
homes.
Loughborough
has had a University since 1966 but its growth in recent years has
caused a massive shortage of places to rent for students.
Back
then, there were fewer than 2,000 students. Now there are more than
14,000, all looking for somewhere to live.
Rosie
Peddle lives near Loughborough's Ashby Road where students stagger
home at night.
She's
witnessed the campus spread into the town over the years.
She
can understand their boisterous behaviour but has to put up regularly
with what she calls "vomit and tin can football".
Rosie
says: "The only way forward is to have a residents group to
fight to get the students within the campus."
But
this is a bit late for Angela Jarram. For 65 years she lived on
the same street but felt she had to move out when the students moved
in.
Angela
says: "I always imagined I'd only leave the street in a box.
But I felt forced out and no-one was listening to me."
The
university is sympathetic and is doing more to regulate student
behaviour.
It
also has plans for more places for students to live on campus.
As
a town, Loughborough's economy benefits greatly from having the
university.
The
same can be said for Lincoln; but it's a new university and has
only been up and running since the Nineties.
It
was built for and opened with a huge number of students who had
to live in the city.
Landlords
bought up property nearby and what happened in Loughborough is being
repeated here.
Trudy
Farrelly, who lives in the Victorian terraces close to the city
centre, says: "They've turned part of the city into a makeshift
campus and we're the ones having to suffer the consequences."
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