WELL, it appears I have touched a raw nerve with Philip Lickley's reply to my earlier letter.

However, I can comment on life among students in Bath as I am one of the unlucky ones who have to live with it day in and day out, and it is hell. It is not a generalisation, it is fact.

He may be a student who works, but the large majority of those in Bath do not.

In Bath, there is insufficient university accommodation for all first-year students and nowhere to build more.

Nearly 50 per cent of the houses in my street are now student accommodation which brings with it antisocial noise, dirty and scruffy houses and a complete lack of regard for everyone else.

Another street not far away now has one resident left out of 60 houses. Across a small district this amounts to unacceptable levels.

Large groups of youths walking the streets drunk late into the night is frightening to anyone, but to an elderly housebound person it is terrifying.

I stand by my comments because I know they are accurate for Bath.

If Bradford is a different case then residents are lucky.

As a regular visitor to York, I can see how the city is being affected and I think it would be very sad if York were to be ruined in the way that Bath has been.

If York's demise continues there will come a point when I will return no longer and I know of others who feel the same way.

Let's face it, York needs visitors in the same way that Bath does.

Miss A Phillips,

Coronation Avenue,

Bath.

Updated: 09:30 Monday, May 08, 2006