Winchester University bosses vow to take disciplinary action against rowdy students making life misery on Stanmore estate

It comes after people living on the Stanmore estate in Winchester have called for action over rowdy students living nearby.

Now Winchester University chiefs say they will take disciplinary action against students who step out of line.

Residents say they have had enough of partying youngsters drinking, vomiting, urinating and even having sex near their homes in Stanmore near Winchester.

As reported yesterday the problems were aired as fed-up residents came face to face with students.

But last night a spokesman for Winchester University said: “The university encourages residents of Stanmore to report antisocial behaviour as close to the time of the incident as possible with information that will enable the issue to be investigated so that appropriate disciplinary action can be taken.

“The university has excluded students for serious incidents of antisocial behaviour.”

On students having sex in public, the spokesman added: “This is a criminal matter and we would encourage residents to report this to the police.”

At the meeting organised by University of Winchester Students’ Union, one campaigner said students verbally abuse locals, vomit on cars and have sex in her street into the early hours of the morning.

“It’s not funny,” she said.

“They’re coming out of here drunk along Erskine Road, laughing, joking, screaming, having sex occasionally. We laughed at it – we probably shouldn’t have. If my children had seen it, it might have been a bit different.”

Student Union president Naomi Carter held the meeting for locals to discuss the steps being taken to tackle the disruption.

This month the union launched van patrols around Stanmore on popular club nights as part of a series of measures to clamp down on noisy students.

Union officials and city councillors urged residents to report every incident to police as the council, university and local force can’t tackle the problem without hard figures.

After the meeting, campaigner Amanda Chard said the discussion was “really positive” but more residents needed to engage with the authorities and the university should offer “much more severe” punishments to antisocial students.

“They should be thrown off their course,” she said. “I don’t think that’s unreasonable.

They [the student union] are doing their best.”

Her petition with more than 300 sign a t u r e s demands city councillors bring forward a proposed rule forcing landlords to get planning permission before converting properties into houses of multi-occupation (HMOs).

It will be presented to a full council meeting on January 7.