Noisy students who kept neighbours awake by playing on their Playstation at 4am have had hundreds of pounds’ worth of equipment seized from their house.

Police and council officers swooped on the house in Fallowfield, after weeks of complaints from people living nearby.

They seized the Playstation along with a TV and seven speakers from the students, who between them attend Salford University and Manchester Metropolitan University.

The MEN understands complaints about noise at the terrace house on Brailsford Road, off Moseley Road, began on October 20 this year.

Neighbours said the students would go out at night then come home around 4am and play Playstation at top volume.

Complaints continued over the next few weeks and the students were visited by a council officer to warn them of the excessive noise.

When that had no effect they were officially given a noise abatement order last Friday, November 7 - but complaints over the noise continued.

So police and council officers today went to the house to seize the students’ equipment - taking away a PS3, five Philips surround sound speakers, two laptop speakers, a Philips DVD player and Samsung flat screen TV.

The items will now be held at a council depot - with the students able to apply to get them back in 28 days’ time in exchange for a hefty fine.

A Manchester council spokesman said: “This seizure demonstrates that we take these concerns from residents very seriously and we work closely with the police and universities to take action against any households that cause problems for their neighbours.

“We started receiving complaints from people living near this house several weeks ago, and after issuing a noise abatement notice, they continued to disregard the impact their behaviour was having on their neighbours and we have now visited them to take their speakers and noise making equipment.

“Residents should not have to put up with noise until the early hours of the morning, and we will always investigate complaints, issuing noise abatement notices to people we find behaving in this manner . In rare cases when this does not bring the problem to an end, we will work with the police to seize equipment .”

A Manchester Metropolitan University spokesman said: “We work hard to build good relationships with the community, regularly liaising with residents’ associations and local representatives to build harmonious relationships between our students and residents.

“We expect students to abide by the Student Code of Conduct and we share, with the University of Manchester, a dedicated off-campus student affairs officer whose job it is to investigate complaints about off-campus behaviour.”

A University of Salford spokesperson said: “We expect all our students to abide by our Student Charter, which states that they should behave respectfully towards neighbours in the local community. We do everything we can to make sure the University as a whole and our students are good neighbours and we reserve the right to apply our student disciplinary procedure where appropriate.”