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Fed up of Fallowfield or not? The big reaction to the claim that the place puts people off the city

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For decades, Fallowfield established community of families, elderly residents and young professionals has lived in peaceful co-existence with its transient community of students.

There are periodic concerns about parties and litter, of course - but little or no serious tension between the different types of resident.

But now local campaigners' unease is intensifying about the effect that the businesses who profit from the student pound are having on the character of the area. Read more:'So what if it's a bit loud?' Residents divided over claims popular Manchester suburb is changing - for the worse A recent licensing hearing was told that late night takeaways and their delivery drivers were contributing to 'huge problems' in the area - problems which were forcing long-term residents out. "Most of them seem to leave Manchester altogether because they've lost faith," Kattie Kincaid, speaking on behalf of South East Fallowfield Residents Group, said. "They just don't want to have to live in this type of environment anymore." But what do residents out and about on Wilmslow Road - the main road lined with takeaways which runs through the heart of the south Manchester suburb - think?

Terry Slattery is a 63-year-old resident of Fallowfield who has lived in the area for more than half of his life and doesn’t want to move. “I come home at about ten, half-ten, eleven and I don’t see any problems," he said. “I’ve been here about 40 years and no, there’s no problems here at all. “I wouldn’t think to live anywhere else.

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