SIR – I empathise with Worcester residents affected by the behaviour of students, but I’m not surprised having witnessed what has happened elsewhere.

In addition to indiscriminate parking, students like to relax and enjoy themselves in the welcoming pubs and clubs and this inevitably results in noisy, outlandish behaviour which often disturbs residents late into the night.

Initially, one or two weary residents will decide to move out of the area.

Their properties will be snapped up by the buy to rent brigade who, would you believe, then let to students.

As more students move in, more fed up residents sell more and more cheaply to move out until only a few residents will remain.

They are generally too old, too ill or too poor to move out of the now rundown, undesirable area.

On the positive side, there are those that the prosper from the situation. The university for one (and the students who enjoy their new found freedom away from the halls of residence).

The estate agents also benefit through the increase in houses changing hands and the new landlords by way of rental revenue.

The pubs and clubs also prosper through increased alcohol sales.

And in some small way perhaps the council, otherwise why would they allow the situation to develop?

J Freeman
Worcester