Letters - Unsocial Behaviour

LETTERS - UNSOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Footpath Fouling
Dear Editor

No doubt when you see the subject of my letter you will immediately think 'dog'. You will be wrong. I am so annoyed I just had to write a letter to someone.

Last night at about 11.30 when I was in bed reading, with the window open I could hear someone on the footpath outside our house on Glenpark Drive. When they didn't seem to be moving on I got up and looked out of the window and saw three boys about 15 years of age. As they were squatting in next doors driveway I couldn't see what they were doing but the way they were acting was enough for me to wake my husband and we both went to investigate by which time they had just gone. One of them had excreted in next doors drive, thrown some in our garden, put some on Glenpark footpath and also wiped excrement on the windscreen of our car which was parked on the road. I was nearly sick? The boy who did this must have stank to high heaven when he got home!

Dogs get bad press because of fouling the footpaths although it isn't the dog at fault its the owner who should know better and clean up after their pet. I'm speechles.

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Price, 17th May 2008

Antisocial Behaviour
Sir:
So, the sickening destructive yobs strike again in Hesketh Bank. I refer, of course, to the wrecking of the shed to the rear of the Becconsall. What on earth is wrong with these delinquents? Every time they are given something, the first thing to strike a few of them is to see how soon they can ruin it. Remember the short-lived youth shelter provided by the Parish Council? All too soon it became a 'nest' for the animal element amongst our youth, drinking, drugs and using the bandroom windows for stone-throwing contests.
I feel genuinely sorry for the (hopefully) majority of kids who would never think of such behaviour but who, due to their 'niceness', soon get driven away from such facilities, When oh when is somebody going to get a grip on this blight on our community? I've chosen to withhold my name and address from publication not through fear of reprisals but through fear of what I might do to this scum should they attempt such action, and the subsequent trouble I would be in with the law, no doubt while the yobs went unpunished! I guess that says it all, really.
Name & Address provided but withheld, 16th May 2006

Misuse of Carr Lane Sports Fields
What a great sight; hundreds of parents and children enjoying the sports fields and facilities in Carr Lane. But, recently, what a worrying sight to see parents watching their children riding miniature motor cycles around the playing fields around and amongst children and families trying to enjoy the facilities away from the dangers of road traffic.
As an ex motor cyclist I know how extremely dangerous this weight of metal can be even at relatively low speeds. Providing helmets and safety clothing for their own children to ride these small motor bikes shows that the parents appreciate the danger to their own children; but alas, appear to care a great deal less for other people and their children.
Is this activity not illegal on public land?
Alan Dickinson, 21st September, 2005

Proposal by Tarleton Bowling Club to extend licencing hours daily to 1am
Living within the immediate area of the club, we have throughout the years, been subjected to noise issuing from the club. They eventually installed extra glazing, which has resulted in less noise from within the club.
However, there is a considerable amount of noise when customers are leaving the club! People waiting for taxis, or generally shouting, swearing, banging car doors, and general levels of noise as they make their way home down the local lanes. Many nights have been distrubed, due to their lack of respect to local residents,many of whom have small children who are woken from sleep. No-one in authority seems to be around to keep noise levels down. If Tarleton Bowling Club were allowed to increase licencing hours, this would result in increasing numbers of people flooding into the club when other local pubs have served their last orders. Consequently there would be people noisily coming and going every night of the week, especially weekends, resulting in more disturbance within the area. And don't forget last orders at 1am can mean 2am when people have finished their drinks and leaving the club.
Sutton Lane, where the bowling club is situated, is a residential area, consisting largely of families and children. In my opinion and that of other local residents, it would be totally inappropriate for the club to be allowed to open for even longer hours.
I hope the licencing authority have the common-sense to reject this proposal and urge those living in the locality to express their concerns.
Mr & Mrs Heaton, 24th July 2005

Dear Editor,
It seems that working hard, paying your bills and obeying the law means nothing when you have to be subjected to people like my neighbours.
We have to two children that can' t play outside their gate because of fear for their safety, we are constantly hearing shouting and noise from their house it doesn't matter if it's day or night or what ever the time is, to top it up there was a raid for drugs on their house only 3 weeks ago.
Cropper gardens lives in fear of speaking and puts up with these peoples behaviour because what else can we do?
We have tried to sell our house twice in the last 12 months but nobody buys it because of the street reputation. Because of these people we are being prevented from moving on, and losing money as time goes by.
something needs to be done. CAN ANYBODY HELP ?????
Ana Faria, 7th January 2005

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