Darwen alley gates bid to cut crime and rubbish (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Darwen alley gates bid to cut crime and rubbish
12:00pm Wednesday 24th October 2012 in News
By Dan Clough, Reporter
SUPPORT Coun Karimeh Foster, inset, is pleased alley gating is being looked at for the Meadow Street area of Darwen
AN area blighted by anti-social behaviour and rubbish is the latest in Darwen subject to an application to install alley gates.
Blackburn with Darwen Council has applied to have alleys in the area around Meadow Street gated.
If approved by the council planning department, gates would go up behind Woodville Terrace, Portland Street, Maria Street, and Alfred Street.
The application said: “The installation of alley gates is part of the council’s ongoing commitment to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour within Blackburn and Darwen.
“The layout is uniform across each area, with a two-metre gate suspended between two posts, with infill panels between the post and the adjacent walls, preventing access through, or round, the gate to the alley.”
Whitehall councillor Karimeh Foster said, along with her husband and fellow councillor David, she had concerns about the area.
She said: “I am pleased they are looking at gating the area. It gives people peace of mind.
“We had people contac-ting us saying they were annoyed with people dump- ing rubbish in the alley.
“It was an area that had been of concern to us for a while.”
Coun Foster said people in the area supported the installation of alley gates.She said: “The executive member, Coun Dave Harling, launched a consultation into it after we mentioned it to him.
“We have spoken to people in the area. They are all up for it. Hopefully now, people will look after the alleys.”
Coun Foster said the people of Whitehall had shown a lot of pride in the area.
She said: “We had the Whitehall in Bloom comp-etition recently which was wonderful. People showed they were proud of where they lived and it enhanced the area.
“Hopefully these gates will help us keep this area one of the nicest in the borough.”
Comments(16)
generalludd
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12:19pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jimpy0
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12:32pm Wed 24 Oct 12
pm1960
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1:56pm Wed 24 Oct 12
I understand that this is also the case in the Newton St / London Terr area too.
jimpy0
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2:03pm Wed 24 Oct 12
2 for 5p
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3:27pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Come off it surly they can't expect the rest of the borough to foot the bill.
Izanears
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4:10pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Twicki1
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4:44pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Mothernature
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10:37pm Wed 24 Oct 12
Mothernature
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10:41pm Wed 24 Oct 12
jimpy0 wrote:Maybe you should ask/find out from the home owners who rent out their property to low lives, why they don't bother with the areas that have a problem. Couldn't have anything to do with them not being from around this way, nor do they care to whom they rent their properties. As long as the rent is paid, why should they bother if things aren't okay for the rest of us.
Drive around darwen and look up some of the already gated alleyways - what the hell difference has gate-ing made when the home-owners themselves show NO pride in their area.
english rose 1
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12:14am Thu 25 Oct 12
Mothernature wrote:I agree ! The gates should be placed in those areas with higher crime rates and high anti-social behaviour problems. I doubt very much that this area of Darwen has those problems to a higher degree than some other areas without gates.
Amazing how the folks of Whitehall will (in all probability) get alley gates, yet those of us who live in less desirable areas of Darwen have been refused. Our particular area has a massive problem with anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping but we don't have a big enough problem to warrant the expense of the gates. Maybe Karimeh Foster could do some research and see which area has real problems instead of those who have slight problems.
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The good news is that this is just an application and no decision has been made yet to install gates in this area..
louderfasterlonger
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3:26pm Thu 25 Oct 12
english rose 1 wrote:She doesn't do her constituants any favours in that respect... the photo shows one of the cleanest back streets I have ever seen apart from a couple of bins being out.
Mothernature wrote: Amazing how the folks of Whitehall will (in all probability) get alley gates, yet those of us who live in less desirable areas of Darwen have been refused. Our particular area has a massive problem with anti-social behaviour and fly-tipping but we don't have a big enough problem to warrant the expense of the gates. Maybe Karimeh Foster could do some research and see which area has real problems instead of those who have slight problems.I agree ! The gates should be placed in those areas with higher crime rates and high anti-social behaviour problems. I doubt very much that this area of Darwen has those problems to a higher degree than some other areas without gates. * The good news is that this is just an application and no decision has been made yet to install gates in this area..
whitehallhero
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4:43pm Thu 25 Oct 12
Major Tom
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2:18pm Fri 26 Oct 12
It's like a zoo anyway.
mother of 4
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3:28pm Fri 26 Oct 12
whitehallhero
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3:31pm Sun 28 Oct 12
shytalk says...
12:08pm Wed 24 Oct 12