Protestors were led by local campaigners, Home Sweet Home, to take up mops and buckets and parade outside a local lettings agent's offices in Brighton.

The "mob" claimed that the lettings agent were not providing "fit for purpose" accommodation for students and insisted on a meeting with the owner.

They demanded this action as they strongly felt that the owner should enter into a frank discussion on how the firm could improve standards for the properties, that their tenants were renting off them.

The protest was ended when the owner agreed to hold a meeting with the group at a later date. This is not the first time that the campaigners, Home Sweet Home, have held such protests as they have been selecting other letting agents in Brighton. They claim to have found poor business practises being operated by those targeted and have accused them of offering poor accommodation in the city to their private renters.

The Campaigners Home Sweet Home is made up students, tenants and other support agencies for tenants rights in Brighton.

  
One Home Sweet Home campaigner Chris Henry said: “We got the result we wanted – a meeting with the owner. Now we have to see what changes can be made when we have that meeting.”

Candice Armah, president of Brighton University Students’ Union said: “Thousands of students in this city live in bad conditions but pay thousands of pounds in rent for the privilege. This action is just part of a growing campaign to improve living conditions for students in Brighton."