LOCALS fear student ghetto-residents object to rising numbers" page 5

These are businesses so why should they not pay business rates?" page 19

With regards to the two articles printed in The Citizen (March 29), I thought I would respond to the residents' complaints.

Although I do not live in Golgotha Road myself, I felt deeply angered by the complaints.

The rising number of students in the city is due to the standards of the university and St Martins College increasing, therefore acquiring a better reputation and more applicants (who I may add bring a lot of business to the town).

If these claims, that certain areas should only be for families, then people will be put off studying in Lancaster.

I shall be starting my studies at the university myself in October, and yes I am renting a property now and will be for my three-year course.

My landlords, my parents, are not making any kind of living from the rent of myself and 3 other tenants, but merely covering costs, and I know of many other students in the same situation.

Admittedly there are "bad" landlords about, you only need to enter some of the squalid dwellings that they rent out to know this, however I think it is vastly unfair to through everyone into the same pot.

I can empathise with the problem of parking spaces, as I am disabled myself. Instead of blaming the students for taking away spaces, maybe the residents could ask the council to provide disabled parking outside their properties, or ask the students to leave the spaces outside their house free? We are not monsters, but communication is necessary in resolving problems.

Sarah Hill Ulster road