Well that kind of thing was never going to happen at Headingley,Ive seen many changes to the suburb in the 50s-60s, it was upper midlle class 70s -80s ,it was like young professionals, intelligencia left wing leaning politically,and of course older people who go back generations,but when the student population in Leeds exploded and landlords started buying up property and thses posh kids from the home counties away from home for the first time allus had their bums wiped really have trashed the area and even if the housing market was OK people who have stayed on would not be able to sell at the going rate.I have heard plans are afoot to try to introduce families back to the area ,and move students to ready built accomodation.Having said that I think the City of Wakefield would get an uplift from students in the city centre I.E restuarants ,food outlets etchey all spend money so it would enhance the local economy

Not really funny that as I have a son who lives in a student house at the back of The cricket stadium and his girlfriend also in same are whose house has recently been burgled

It wasn't really meant to be funny; students are statistically much more likely to be victims of crime than perpetrators and I'm sure I read somewhere that Headingley is one of the most burgled wards in the country; some of the reasons for that are exactly as I've described above - they don't secure their properties properly, are out of the house regularly and have 4 of everything in the one house.



p.s I am not a burglar.

I understand how you might have been offended by this, but I've been broken into twice in Bradford and I still had a chuckle.

I wish you'd put that on your first post, just got a right mouthful from the local constabulary when I had to ring them and cancel my call for them to come round to your house.

Grass!

I prefer an artificial surface myself - Denis Betts and the rest of the Widnes faithful keep telling me it is far superior!!

Then you're an i-Grass! Either way, I've just spent the afternoon in a small room being interviewed by two of Wakefield's finest; that'll learn me.

Define finest?

Think he means the old bill.

My question still stands lol

I'll have nothing said against them!