'When I go to work they are still out there at five in the morning'

Joan Borrington, 56, who works as a chef at a Premier Inn, has lived for 25 years in neighbouring Allestree Street.

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She said: “The parking is absolutely atrocious and the mess. Over the past two years, hundreds of [HMOs] have gone up around here. It’s a lot more segregated than it used to be.”

Occupants keep themselves, she added, also claiming that some are drug users. Ms Borrington said of her transient neighbours: “Some are lovely, no noise. Another one has loud music on all day. They really don’t care.”

She recalled seeing five or six young men in a house having a party and drinking. “Everybody to their own,” the resident said.

“But when it’s in the middle of the street, and you can’t get past them, if you're out and about...