UNTIL this city changes to a sensible administration, one with the balls to change the planning policy, studentification will continue at the alarming rate that it currently stands.

Those figures shown by the Argus are showing 80 per cent student housing, leaving 20 per cent for our next generation and that’s only when and if the 500 or so stated by a council spokeswoman are likely to be built, probably at the top end of Whitehawk.

So those that were born and lived all their young lives here, it can only mean that when its time to fly the nest it looks like they’ll need to fly a lot further afield.

With two good universities in this city it’s understandable that students from far flung parts of the UK and beyond want to come here in their droves.

That’s why the situation is being exploited big time by the big companies that can afford to build the high rise student accommodation blocks, they really don’t give a hoot about the fact that this city has a massive housing problem.

However, I expect to be reading letters of mass support from the one and only Green MP and most of those Green candidates standing for council on May 2, as they know full well with students being allowed two votes they’ll get most of them and the more there are the happier the Greens will be.

So with the article on page four of The Argus of March 20 entitled “It’s time to put our own people first,” I say, too right it is.

Hon Alderman Geoff Wells, Past City Councillor for the Woodingdean Ward