Tough new guidelines on student housing

The days of raucous student parties keeping whole neighbourhoods awake could be numbered. John Denham, the communities and local government secretary, is considering new laws that would allow councils to block three or more undergraduates from renting shared homes in areas with large student populations. His move follows complaints by local authorities that some areas have turned into antisocial transient student “ghettoes”, driving locals away and making the problem worse …