We’re not all noisy neighbours’: Exploring the tension between students and residents in Plymouth
Plymouth’s students: are they loud, messy and disruptive, or a vital part of the city which must be accepted and nurtured?
With so many blocks of student flats springing up across the city, the tension between ‘town and gown’ is examined.
“GOODBYE Plymouth and say hello to Studentsville-on-Sea”. This single line, from a resident objecting to the latest plan to build student flats near the Plymouth University campus, provides a snapshot of how many people see the city’s undergraduate population: rude, lazy and inconsiderate, wreaking drunken havoc into the early hours, disturbing the sleep of respectable homeowners with families and jobs …