Click on image to enlarge!Our bungling Councillor's missed an opportunity to correct a local antisocial problem of immense proportion.
Arson attacks in the ward are on the increase with over 13 reported incidents in my recollection. Chadwell allotments alone had at least 7 in a 3 month period, that also involved a fire at residential property. The community anxiety, that the purported drug addicted youths are causing, to residents close to the allotments is immense. Ye self-absorbed Councilors felt the need to ask for another site visit to the allotments with the Police and Allotment manager.
Our Police, ASBO Team and allotment officers have all visited the site with me at my behest at the time of the incidents. Our Police in a two page report reiterated several times the essential need for secure palisade fencing to prevent access to the site from its most vulnerable location - behind an alleyway and unadopted road that is rarely used and dark.
The ASBO team have indicated support for the scheme and only the Council's own financially challenged allotment section have shown any apprehension to the scheme due to it's cost - I should add and not based on security issues.
At the Area 5 Committee Meting at which the Funding application was discussed. Cllr Staight even made the rather pathetic remark, that green mesh fencing is easily forced open in other areas. When it is clear stipulated within my funding application that the scheme proposed is for secure palisade fencing in alignment with the existing strong fencing that does not complete a circuit of the allotments....?
Why are these people in power...? Who voted them in...? What extra intelligence could our daft councilors input that would supersede the expert advice of our Police and ASBO Team – they tackle crime issues daily?
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