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Reclaim our Communities: Your
views
These are some of the responses to our
Reclaim Our Communitites campaign:
HELLESDON again!! youths use digger
and mini roller to smash football goals and fences down at
the high school on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon while
children are about to play football. some of the guilt party
even go to the school. They should be named and shamed and
made to pay.
HELLESDON: I have lived in
Woodland Rd Hellesdon for 17 years it used to be a nice quiet
tidy area but the rubbish, dog mess and graffitti make it
look like parts of London. The local yobs drive cars and scooters
up and down the road at night way beyond 30mph, some of the
idiots don't have helmets on. The comunity centre is a bit
of a no go area even during the day, yobs drinking and damaging
the play equipment, if you ask them to get off the under 9
year olds play equipment so small children can play all you
get is abuse and thats from some of the girls. Big groups
of youths hang around most nights drinking. Even the schools
get problems with damage and graffitti. Makes you wonder what
the parents are doing!
THORPE: Flytipping: Between Racecourse
Road and Goodwood Close along Woodside Road - off Plumstead
Road - Thorpe St Andrew. Settees/chairs etc spoiling, what
would otherwise be, a nice kerbside area of grass and trees.
Also the wooded area between Racecourse Road and Greenborough
Road has become the 'private' dump to those living in the
flats opposite! 1st area,a recent occurance. 2nd area, constantly
with garden rubbish.
NORWICH:
My neighbour is a suspected drug dealer/pimp and known to
the police. He has been diagnosed with a psychotic condition
and has displayed threatening behaviour toward myself and
other neighbours. He has in fact threatened to harm me and
verbally told a neighbour that he would kill me if I continued
to complain. The nightly noise levels from his flat are at
times unbearable and some of his 'activities' sound to be
disturbing to say the least. I have made a diary of events
which has been been sent to the housing authorities and have
logged numerous call to the police. They seem powerless to
do anything unless I am actually harmed, or to improve my
situation here . I am scared to go out and feel at risk most
of the time. Please can somebody actually do something to
help me.
NORWICH: Prostitute visiting neighbour,
shouting, swearing and vandalising property.We are woken on
a regular basis by this sort of behaviour. Drug deals taking
place outside our house with the prostitute and car driver.
We live on Aylsham Road. Norwich.
BARRETT ROAD, LAKENHAM:
- Damage to parked cars, e.g smashed windows,
dented bodywork.
- Objects thrown at traffic, e.g. fruit, stones
- Trespass, e.g. children climbing on roof of
council depot
- Youths smashing windows of vacant houses
- Rubbish thrown into gardens
- Truancy (there is so much truancy that almost as many children
can be seen around the area when schools are open as when
they are closed. That is not an exaggeration!),
- Children shouting and swearing all day and up to late at
night (including, of course, when they should be at school)
- Gangs of children and youths roaming the streets
- Children riding 'mini motos' up and down the pavement during
school hours
Nearly all the incidents I have listed are due
to the activities of just two households. These houses are
'magnets' for other ill-behaved children and youths. In one
house four or five boys aged up to about 13 live with their
mother. As far as I know, only one of them ever attends school.
Truants from the area therefore congregate at this address
and, instead of attending school, spend the day annoying local
residents. In the other the residents are older. They have
become so arrogant that one evening they were even playing
football in the road during rush hour, making the traffic
beep and stop, etc. (I know this sounds incredible, and I
didn't believe my eyes at first when I saw it happen).
CITY UNDERPASS: The underpass under the inner ring road on
the north of the city at St. Crispins/Pitt Street is an absolute
permanent disgrace. The question isn't 'when has it got grafitti
on it?', it's 'When hasn't it?'
BARRETT ROAD/ARNOLD MILLER ROAD/NETHERWOOD
GREEN: Continued asb.criminal damage by known yobs.
This has been going on for years and despite the continued
efforts of wardens/pcso etc,nothing is ever done. My shed
was burgled a few weeks back,along with many others in the
area. Ihave cctv evidence,as do others. Decent hardworking
residents have had enough and will end up taking matters into
their own hands if this continues. You published a request
from the police asking for the public to give them any cctv
evidence they had. What a joke;tapes sit on'some desk somewhere'
for weeks and you get no response when you inquire as to what
is happening. This isnt good enough and neither is the fact
that yobs rule and have more rights than the victims they
target.
AYLSHAM: I'm reporting the continuous and volumatic problem
of dog fouling in the cut-through from Howard Way to Hungate
Street and right down Hungate Street to the town, not even
the churchyard is spared (right next to the dog foul sign!).
GOLDEN TRIANGLE: A few months
ago now, my son his girlfriend and another boy (all aged 19-ish)
were walking home down St Philips Road (note: so-called "good"
area). They admit they were laughing and bantering good naturedly
as they walked, when they were attached out of the blue by
a well built man in his 30s who 'appeared out of nowhere'
(we think perhaps from one of the houses as he wore no outdoor
clothes of any sort)and began lashing out at them all without
preamble. They all felt he might have been drunk or had spillt
out from some 'domestic' situation. It was a completely unprovoked
attack and resulted in my son's friend being punched in the
face leading to quite a lot of blood lost. I urged them to
report it, but unfortunately they did not. So it's not just
the youths in the community who are losing control...
Earlham. Thurs 7/9/06. 6.30pm Two 14
year girls trepassing in back yard of Private propery off
Malbrook Road, smoking, vomiting food, drinking, shouting
and disturbing private residents and refusing reasoned requests
by residents to leave. Police called, and girls moved on.
But no other action. The parents of these kids really need
to know what what is going on, and made responsible. The Police/
PCSO's need regular presence/ patrols around here, Thurs,
Friday & Saturday 6pm-9pm.
Cardboard Boxes fly tipped into
woodland on Malbrook Rd, near to the bus stop.
Norwich: ive had my babys grave
trashed 3 times as u may no from story 2day, when sis was
there on the fri 2 teens were kickin stuff over there, when
sis shouted at them they laughed and left
Horsford: Scooter boys, constantly riding
on wrong side of the road, over reving, riding up and down
at all hours, speeding down usually quiet close's - riding
around in groups. One day someone will be involved in a bad
accident, I have seen cars having to take avoiding action
when boys cut the corner when turning onto a main road from
a close. I am sure the mufflers / silencers have been taken
off their machines as very noisy.
North Earlham: Bus shelter
regularly vandalised, Council do not redesign it, and it incurrs
more vandalism.
BT exchange Boxes Grafitti everywhere, one at
the Earlham Court Road/Malbrook Rd Junction, and one at the
Malbrook Rd/ Wilberforce Road Juction
Flytipping and litter along Malbrook Road and
the Adjacent Oak and Beech Woodlands around Rollestone Close,
Freshfield Close (rear) and St. Mildred's Road. (rear) area.
Youths 12-16 gathering in the North Earlham
area on Friday and Saturday evenings between 5pm and 10pm
shouting abuse, acting in an intimidating manner, disturbing
the peace and trespassing on private property to smoke and
drink alcohol, breaking lights and cracking glass doors at
Christopher Court via stone throwing, and running over front
flower beds with bicycles. Their parents are nowhere to be
seen.
Young people shoplifting goods from the Newsagents/
Confectionary Shop on Wilberforce Road run by Siad.
Earlham Court Road: and also generally, especially
teenagers. Cyclists using pedestrian footpaths and hitting
pedestrians or not giving way, riding on the road. A distinct
lack of trainingand consideration, competancy skills and knowledge
of the highway code, Rights of Way law. I have seen many youths
cycling dangerously along Malbrook Avenue with scant regards
to traffic, or using the collect side of the road.
I fully support your campaign to cut anti-social
behaviour. we all must, as a public duty. I hope every city
councillor and police office can sign up too as well as teachers
and parents. The message should be strong and universal: No
to ASB and zero tolerance.
On Sunday evening at 10pm our neighbour
came round to inform us that our car (which is parked right
outside our house) had been run over. When we went to look
it was obvious that they had jumped onto the bonnet, up on
to the roof, then on to the boot. The dusty footprints confirming
it, with the roof caved in badly (making the car probably
a write-off).
Strobe lights being flashed into our windows
at dark, stones picked up from our garden and thrown over
the road at a brick wall - over moving cars, general intimidation.
4 times monthly approx.
Can anything be done about neighbours
STARTING noisy parties late at night in a terraced house area?
In recent months I have had to go out, in my dressing gown,
in the small hours of the morning to ask the people who live
near me to quieten their party down - they were in the garden
yellling, laughing and shouting.
The latest incident was last Saturday
night/ Sunday morning when I had to tell
them twice about it. They quietened down at 3 am!
I don't know who the owner of the house
is otherwise I would have reported it to the person concerned
- the residents are tenants.
Three young guys asked for my copy of the Evening
News whilst we sat at the back of a bus. I hadn't finished
reading it so I said I would give it to them after I was done.
A few minutes later they started to hurl abuse at me and swearing.
I was determined not to give in to bullying. As we approach
where they got off, one of the spat over me and they laughed.
When I informed the bus driver he didn't care and told me
to complain to First. Happened two years ago but still remains
firmly lodged in my mind. I am still worried about sitting
at the back of buses.
Dog fouling, litter and broken glass
the whole way along the foot path from Three Score to the
Bowthorpe Main Centre. CityCare claim to clean every 8 weeks
- residents don't think so!
Motum Road (Clarkson Rd End) is the most littered
street in Norwich I cleared out a bin bag full of rubbish
from my front garden which has gathered pace during the summer
hoildays. People and children have NO respect for others.
I enclose two pictures for your anti-yob
campaign; a campaign I have been waging for months in Hellesdon.
The first picture shows a typical scene at 10am on Hellesdon
community centre park of drunken yobs, many of them under
age, downing their morning Fosters. the second photo is of
the same scene that evening and is again typical of the litter
left after a morning or evening session. The dogs are mine
BTW and yes I do clean up after them as many other dog walkers
on the park will testify.
There is also a problem with mopeds speeding up and down the
park roads which have a speed limit of 5 MPH. I have taken
the numbers of the worst offenders but I've no doubt you won't
publish them. I also have photo's of their mopeds showing
the number plates.
flytipping weekly,loud music nightly,windows
smashed in corridors.commonial gardens have'nt been cleared
or grass cut this year by council.garden at front is now a
fire hazard.still trying to get council to do something about
all aspects since october last year but no joy.seam they spend
more time making thier roundabouts look good for everbody
else apart from their own community.surely keeping flats and
gardens clean and tidy would benefit everybody.norwich a fine
city.what a joke...
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