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Metropolitan Police Controversial Sunray Estate curfew broken.
Police are still trying to move gangs of young people away from their haunt at a railway bridge after reports that a baseball bat was waved at a woman driver.
The three month Dispersal Order, issued by Kingston Council after a bicycle was thrown onto the tracks by a 12-year-old boy causing £5,000 to £6,000 worth of damage, expires at the end of September.
Neighbourhood watch co-ordinator Adam Lotun said, "Young people think the dispersal order has expired but it hasn't. It seems like the gang has come back with a vengeance."
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Sadly the situation will not get better unless firm action is taken. So my proposal is this:
1. If these youngsters parents are council tenants then the Council Officers should visit them and make it clear that further trouble caused by their offspring which is proven will lead to their eviction from council properties.
2. If the parents live in Housing Association (HA) properties then their Housing Officers should be contacted by Kingston Council as HA's have their own tenancy agreements which will cover anti-social behaviour. Usually this concerns their actual home or immediate neighbours, but I am certain, with appropriate will, it can be extended to the local area.
3. If parents are home owners then that is more difficult. There was a case recently of a very sensible judge banning two brothers from their own flat after months of loud music. They were only banned for about a month, but the point was made. Of course government, if serious, could bring in legislation that allows local councils to raise the council tax payment of proven anti-social homes in the area.
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