Last year, you published some read-ers' correspondonce on their views regarding car parking in the areas around Brunel University, and the lack of car parking space for the many tax-paying owners of the properties affected [No end to student parking stress, April 2, 2008, et al].

Well the problem has not gone away - in fact it has got worse.

The time has come for Hillingdon Council and/or Brunel Univeristy to take some action on behalf of we, the 'fed-up philanthropists' - because that's what we have become!; to arrange for these many poor students (allegedly suffering from lack of funds) to be allotted parking facilities within the university campus and nowhere else.

Historically, when the little darlings were sent from the nest into the unknown, mummy and daddy would transport them to their new environment, help them to decant their belongings and bid them farewell until the long holiday breaks, when mummy and daddy would return to collect them.

Now, in our particular street alone I believe that at least 20 or so properties are let to students, who most, in turn, own a car.

One house I know has six students in, and probably a couple more friends who occasionlly doss down.

Each student has a vehicle which leaves us, the hard-working public, to find a space, because once the students are suitbaly housed, they park the car and hibernate.

Why? Because money cannot be allocated for petrol, so it's exercise time, and off on a daily walk to Brunel.

The only exit is at holiday times, when travel back to mummy and daddy is essential.

That said, finance for beer and alcohol for parties can always be found. The only council tax payer in these instances is the owner of the said properties, who is rubbing hands from the golden handshake in rents received. Let's face it, a council tax payment is negligible in this instance.

Also Hillingdon Council, in its wisdom, has already given restricted resident access to some of the roads within our periphery, and now we doubly suffer with residents from these roads, for example Lodge Close, who now park their excess vehicles in Dellfield Crescent, further adding to the overcrowding.

I would invite my neighbours to comment via your newspaper. The way things are going it can only lead to confrontation and perhaps visits from the local constabulary.

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