Lights Out and Away we go !!!! Hopefully

Lights Out and Away we go !!!! Hopefully

Firstly Thank you for all the nice replies and face to face messages, it is nice to be back in Acton especially when I am currently feeling very appreciated.

I wanted to start by saying I am going to do some work around the group of users who are sleeping on the Mount. It is fair to say they are currently the biggest issue around the Town Centre.

We have been contacted by the surgery saying that the staff are being greeted by sleeping homeless people who refuse to move. I am thinking it isn't a huge leap to assume they may be sleeping off the party.

So I have arranged for officers to attend tomorrow at 7am to politely move them on, and then I will be there myself on Wednesday at 7 am to move them on. 

It is my aim to get officers there at 7 am every morning to move them on. 

Only from the Mount. If we can get them to learn that we will be waking them every morning at 7am we hopefully will persuade them to find somewhere else to party and then sleep off their excesses.

Additionally I have asked the Surgery to turn off the lights there for a week. This is my request and I ask you all to let me try this for one week. Obviously we know this will make it darker for you walking past. But It is my belief that this makes the area very desirable for the drug users. Smoking Crack and Heroin is very fiddly. The drugs is tiny and comes in a little wrap of cling film. Light is a great help if you are trying to transfer the power or small rocks to the pipes. We want to take that away.

The surgery is losing patients and the residents are losing patience so we need to try something new.

Hopefully this trial will prove successful and the area will stop being the party hub it currently is.

I have also begun exploring the South Acton Estate, where I think my new role will also cover. I am looking at trying to do some engagement with the young people at the Youth Centre there. I am sure with my dad jokes and boring stories with no middle or end they will be lining up to engage with me. Seriously though I am looking at doing a cook out type party in the summer next year at the Youth Centre and will update you when I work out more.