Southfield Road crime prevention

John Fareham and John Abbott are playing an active role in crime prevention again, this time down Southfield Road where residents reported a spike in crime along this street and managed to identify the problem was “the tenfoot” coming off the turning head and which leads on to Chanterlands Avenue.

Of course because what looks like a tenfoot is, by some bizarre decision in the very long-distant past that nobody can discover the reason for, actually adopted as a Public Highway, it cannot be gated off.

If the reason we can’t gate it is because it is a public highway, the problem needs to be redefined and what better than to change the terms of the question?  There and then we made immediate enquiries about a Stopping-up Order and were told within only a few days, thanks to the excellent staff, they were still ‘a thing’ and how to set about having one.  Because we manage the minimal ward budget we have, the meanest ward budget in the city, we managed to find the £2000 it costs to undertake the process.