Noisy students should be ordered to keep their windows shut to stop residents being disturbed, councillors have suggested.

And more teams of council officials should be sent out to patrol the streets looking for people making a nuisance by playing loud music late at night.

The recommendations are among 37 drawn up by a Brighton and Hove City Council panel tasked with tackling the studentification of the area.

The panel has spent months looking at the issue of how to help students and residents live peacefully side by side.

Its Students in the Community report includes nine recommendations on how to cut recycling and rubbish and 12 recommendations on tackling noise nuisance.

The report also calls on Geoffrey Theobald, the council’s cabinet member for the environment, to come up with a plan to tackle bulky waste being dumped by students.

The scrutiny panel, which includes councillors Anne Meadows, Georgia Wrighton and Tony Janio, has drawn up its report after meeting with residents, student and university representatives and experts on student issues.

Some of the most common complaints were about noise, parking, rubbish and the run-down appearance of student properties.

Coun Meadows said: “As a city we need to take steps to manage and reduce any adverse impacts on particular areas. This can only be achieved by the local authority working together with the universities, colleges, local residents, students and other partners.”

Residents welcomed the report but demanded to know how the council would take action.

Gillian Fleming, of Hanover Street, Brighton, is part of a group of residents called Podium who live close to the University of Brighton’s Phoenix halls of residence.

She said: “It has been a thoughtful and viable process.

“But we need to know where it goes from here and we are seeking clarification on a number of issues.”

A University of Brighton spokeswoman said staff were already trying to act on the recommendations.

She said: “This includes changes at Phoenix halls of residence, where the reception has been relocated and signage has been placed about the accommodation to remind students to shut windows to minimise noise pollution.”

The panel also recommended that the council should identify land for new halls of residence to be built on - while asking university bosses to see if any extra accommodation could be filled with second and third year students.

The report will be referred to the council’s strategic housing board to be considered.