University students insist they aren't the ones behind a wave of anti-social behaviour causing a nuisance for residents and have instead pointed the finger at a group of kids.
Students living in Hyde Park, Leeds, have said it's children and 'scary locals' who cause the most disruption to the area - the gang of kids known to residents as the 'Peaky Minors' which they say are notorious for causing mayhem.
This comes after Leeds City Council shut down a student house party on Brudenell Mount in Hyde Park after it spilled into the street but according to residents the noisy house parties are the least of their worries.
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The Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team were called to a house on Brudenell Mount after a house party spilled into the street, causing a flood of complaints from residents.
The Leeds City Council team tweeted: "After a recent serious incident of ASB where a large house party on Brudenell Mount LS6 spilled out onto the street with a large number of revellers causing significant nuisance to residents & the community we've been granted a closure order at court.
"This prevents visitors to the property for a further 6 weeks until the tenants move out. Anyone who breaches the order commits a criminal offence."
But resident's of Brudenell Mount claim the anti-social behaviour comes from 'terrifying' local children and not noisy house parties. Leeds Live spoke to a group of students who live on the street. One woman, who didn't want to be named, said: "We could hear people having a party but it's fine you just don't think much of it."
"We would strongly say there are problems in the area but not with students, if you are living round here you expect noise.
"There is quite a lot of scary people that aren't students. There are people walking down the road with knives and things, there is a gang of 12-year-old's with machetes. They were tipping things on people who were laid in Hyde Park the other day."
A woman from the group said: "A group of kids asked me if I wanted drugs the other day." Another added: "There was massive group of them fighting outside of Sainsbury's when I came back from work at 1am too."
"I think its a group called the 'Peaky Minors', that's what people are saying, there were loads of people talking about it last year.
The spokeswoman for the group said: "Nothing that has ever bothered us has been students, which you would kind of expect but we accept what the students are doing and there is nothing that is that bad. When there are parties you can hear them but they are never that bad.
"We wouldn't say there is loads of anti-social behaviour on this road, its actually quite quiet. If you were a family of four them maybe you wouldn't want to live here but its quiet compared to what could happen."
She added: "Fireworks night has been the worst night, it was terrifying in Hyde Park but other than that it hasn't been bad really."
Another two students who live on Brudenell Mount in Hyde Park, Darcy and Lowrie, agreed with the group and claimed students weren't the ones behind anti-social behaviour.
Darcy said: "I think there is a problem with anti-social behaviour but it is more locals than students. There is a group of kids who are terrifying, they put off fireworks all the time."
Lowrie said: "There is really loud bangs off the fireworks through the streets. Last year they were breaking into people's houses and stuff. Darcy added: "It was 12-year-olds going around with knives and stealing phones which was really scary."
When asked if house parties were an issue on the street, Darcy said: "No, it's a student area you just have to accept there is going to be parties. The main issue here is scary locals."
Leeds Live has asked Leeds City Council for a comment.
