Together with the police, we attended a packed public meeting in St John’s Church Hall on 3rd October, organised by HyPER, to discuss crime issues in the Connaught Square and Portsea Place area.
Residents are keen for CCTV to be installed in the area and for the Council to allow burglar alarms to be located on the front of their Listed Buildings and we are taking up these issues with the Planning Department. We also discussed highways, noise and parking issues and we will be following up these matters, too.
Following the meeting, we contacted the Parking Team about extra patrols in the Connaught Square/Portsea Place area at night and we have received the following update,
“Good news- we have additional visits from NSL (parking contractors) set up now so that they will make three visits per night every night to the streets mentioned below to check resident Permit bays. We will review after a week based on compliance to see how this needs to be adjusted.”
We hope that this helps to increase safety and security in the area.
