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A fed-up mum says her family are being tormented by a growing student population around her.

Ali Morris has lived on Aylesbury Road for almost 20 years.

The street in Swansea's Brynmill was once populated by families, but the area's close proximity to Swansea University has seen more and more properties converted for multiple occupancy student living in recent years.

For people who didn't choose to live in a student area, life has been described as "tormenting".

According to Ms Morris that includes constant parties and antisocial behaviour.

"I've had students throwing cans of beer at my autistic son in my garden when I asked them to please be quiet and stop swearing, and I've been called a slut and a bitch while walking down my street."

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She says she often feels too intimidated to use her own back garden and is fed up of cars pulling up outside her house at all hours of the day visiting student houses.

"My family and I have been tormented by students over the years."

The 52-year-old social worker also claims students have urinated on her porch, kicked her car, stolen her plants from the front garden.

"I've also had to see my student neighbours totally naked running down the street ‘playing’ in the middle of the night," she said.

"This is on top of the daily nightmare of navigating the rubbish, dealing with the rudeness and foul language thrown at me when I ask for music to be turned down or rubbish picked up.

"My quality of life is dreadful while the students are here, and no-one seems to want to do anything about it."

The mid-2016 population statistics for the Uplands ward, which encompasses Brynmill, show the 16-24 age group is by far the most populated in the area, a total of 6,902, or 42.3% of the 16,310 people living there.

Ms Morris says the problem has gradually worsened over an eight year period.

"It's gone from a beautiful place to live, where everybody knows each other, to daily mayhem," she said.

"I've been told by students if I don't like living in a student area to get out.

"That's my biggest gripe, it's not a student area, it's one they have come into and have become part of it.

"There is a massive divide here between the students and the remaining permanent residents.

"The students are partying every single night, and are outside shouting and screaming to the point where I won't go out and ask them to stop because you don't know what will happen."

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The day-to-day experience is having a lasting impact on Ms Morris.

"It's like being terrorised in your own house," she said.

"You can hear noise and banging on the walls everywhere you go and there's something everywhere in the community to remind you of students, from the rubbish to the parking situation.

"I'm a social worker and I work in very difficult cases. You do find yourself stressing over whether you are going to be able to sleep tonight."

She added: "In Brynmill there is too many HMOs (houses of multiple occupancy) and it is just not conducive to a community.

"These students do not take any pride in the houses and they just see it as a stop gap for them to party for a year and don't give any respect to their neighbours.

"Hopefully the new student accommodation being built in Swansea city centre will see some of it transfer there in future."

Ward councillor Peter May knows only too well about the issues.

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He said: "All too often residents are experiencing issues and there is a lot of anti-social behaviour.

"We held a meeting with Swansea University on October 1, which was very positive and the university promised that a code of conduct was coming imminently, but that's all gone quiet.

"We have not had it yet, and this we feel would do a lot to alleviate some of the anti-social behaviour being experienced in the area.

"I have lived in Brynmill for a quarter of a century and I remember there being a campaign to stop the spread of HMOs in 1996.

"What needs to be done is proper enforcement, otherwise we're going to keep coming back to the same issues."

Director of student services at Swansea University, Kevin Child, said: “We have been working closely with colleagues in South Wales Police, Swansea Council’s environmental teams, local councillors and community members over the past two years to address community concerns relating to student residents.

"We now have partnership practices in place to quickly react to and address any complaints that we receive from the community.

“Our practices have had a very positive effect in significantly reducing repeat complaints about any property that is reported to us.

"We have also enhanced our disciplinary processes and introduced various levels of disciplinary sanctions to address any repeated poor behaviour more robustly.

"We have clear evidence that these new, ongoing initiatives and others are starting to have a positive impact in the local community but we also recognise that there is plenty more work to do.

“We would strongly advise any resident to immediately report any incident that is related to a specific address, stating the date, time and occurrence to our community liaison officer, James Slattery at j.c.slattery@swansea.ac.uk.

"We will then immediately contact any student residents that we identify as occupying the property to discuss the implications of their activities on the local community.”

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Grace Hannaford, the Swansea University Students' Union's Welfare Officer, added: "At the Students' Union, we work closely with the University's Community Liaison Officer and directly with the community to build a strong relationship.

"We cooperate with residents regarding the increasing amount of community projects we organise, including litter picks and charity work, and invite them to events that could be of interest to them.

"Our on-campus charity, Discovery, organise projects to bring the community and students together, including activities for adults with disabilities and elderly residents, and crime reduction campaigns in cooperation with the the local police.

"We also regularly communicate recycling timetables and the importance of consideration of local residents with the students. We highlight the parking issues, encouraging students to leave their cars at home, and suggest that students introduce themselves to their neighbours on arrival.

"These issues are ongoing but are becoming less frequent and we're constantly working to resolve them."