Just a brief report back on last night’s meeting for the moment. We had about 30+ residents come along and we heard from the police and Council’s Community Safety team.
Some useful ideas came up about the importance of high-visibility policing, the need to document local hot spots for various anti-social behaviour (such as the bus stop by Dean Gardens on Friday nights and weekends) and an offer by the Community Safety team to walk round some of these problem spots with local residents so they get a good feel for why people feel able to deal drugs etc in certain places.
As ever, the question is will any of this happen? WEN wants to keep a close eye on this so we plan to include a progress report on these ideas and initiatives at our next public meeting in the autumn.
We’ll publish fuller notes of this meeting soon.
David Highton
i am very disappointed to have missed the meeting…..hope something positive comes out of it.
Yes, I missed it, too – sounds as though there’s quite a lot of public interest. Thanks for getting the notes up so quickly. My overwhelming feeling is one of helplessness – and a sense of futility. I feel as though we’ve been having these conversations in one form of other for the last 25 years.