The Villagers had protested initially, but the deal was already made and the Village council tried to sell it to them as an economic opportunity. More people meant more consumers and hence the influx of new people would mean good business opportunities for the local shop owners.
Fred West and Tanya had doubted if those students would prefer their pub over one of those trendy clubs in the Town, and the few landlords and -ladies feared that the new building would be unfair competition.
" You aren't going to move there", mrs. George had asked Peter Jack, but he had laughed and told her he wouldn't even be allowed if he wanted to.
Yet mrs. Day hadn't been so somber about the prospects.
" They're all young people you see, and young people have a habit of falling in love, so they'll need flowers."
And when the archeology students had arrived to dig up the skeleton on the Nascent estate, it turned out they weren't as untidy and snobbish as many Villagers had thought.
F.C. had smirked and told them: " We aren't afraid to make our hands dirty, but just wait till you see law students."
Yet she had laughed when she said it, so the Villagers assumed she joked.

And so it befell that a building began to grow in the green fields next to the highway. Every day it grew taller and wider, until one day one of the builders placed the Union Jack on top of it. From that day onwards, it began to look more and more like a real building and eventually the day came that it was officially opened by the mayor. Kirsten Andersen took pictures for the local newspaper and sergeant Bagheera guarded the ceremony with a grim face, for he feared more naked hippies now that those city-wellers were coming to town.

The ribbon was cut, the champagne was sipped and the new inhabitants were allowed in.