I write with reference to the letter from Abigail Field "Attack on student cars was terrorism." I would like to respond as follows: many of us have contacted the college, council, MP and councillors with reference to the Greenwood Road parking and have been doing so since the campus started. We have tried.

What happened to the student cars was wrong and should have been avoided bearing in mind the time and effort that has gone into resolving this issue with the campus by people like myself. The college knows that there are a lot of people at the end of their tether seeing a student car parked and left outside of their house for anything up to three weeks at a time. How would a student or their parents like this outside their property?

Yes, the university has provided service industry jobs but hardly transformed the area. We were bowling along very nicely (it wasn't dull) before the university. Anyway, students are not studying here for our benefit, as implied. It is for theirs. What breaks my heart is seeing this area growing like a rampant cancer and with no spaces for student parking and "no parking" notices everywhere.

I count up to 150 cars parked within a half-mile radius of the campus so what is it going to be like after September with hundreds more students (and cars) on the scene?

It is insulting for the campus to say that they have kept up with and even done better than current regulations demand. The bottom line is that a lot of students are not going to take the "green" option offered by the campus in spite of a lot of money being spent. Students have been asked not to park in residential areas but, as said in her letter, they can legally park here and that is that.

It is time to accept that a 300 to 400 car space facility has to be built or provided for students, whether it be in the shape of a multi-story car park or a park-and-ride system.

Enough of us have tried to do something about the problem legally, but the harsh fact of modern life is that young people are privileged enough to have such an education and a car!

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