I have had it with Canterbury City Council.

It has recently been revealed that the Lounge on the Farm Music festival has yet to be granted an alcohol license (and probably won't be) because the council 'are not sure about the plans' not sure about the plans? The venue's sorted, the acts are booked and the tickets are selling fast - why an earth would a council who are supposed to representing a largely student-occupied city of great culture, history and tourism damage the success of a growing event such as this?

Before that they made the catastrophic error of rejecting hugely popular and compulsory-purchased nightclub 'Studio 41's' planning application to continue trading at a new site in Wincheap due to their 'history of bad management' Canterbury has one of the lowest crime rates of anywhere in the UK - there were rarely any incidents inside or outside of the club and students only had three clubs from which to choose from which has now sadly been reduced to two .

A far more pressing issue for the council is recycling - in this city it is simply appalling - since being a student here I have been appalled by the lacklustre approach to recycling and waste management - at home in Essex every house has THREE WHEELIE BINS, one for kitchen and garden waste, one for tins and paper and one for household non-recyclables - here we get bags which are RARELY replaced by the council meaning that one simply runs out of them and a refuge collection team who only collect them sporadically.

I love Canterbury, I love Kent Uni and I love to go out like any student - but I am also respectful and decent and its high time the council realised that we're here to do degrees - not run around the city centre at 3am on Monday nights with traffic cones on our heads - so sort your priorities out and stop making students feel like criminals - we help Canterbury, so its high time Canterbury helped us - and let us have a bit of fun.