Category Archives: Anti Social Behaviour, Crime etc

Don’t count the chickens but Cllr Convery has received an email suggesting that  United House will try to remove the containers before Xmas.   However, given this saga only believe it when it happens.  And, if you live on a nice … Continue reading →

These huge steel containers are driving residents mad.  They are a terrible safety hazard and have an awful impact on our neighbourhood amenity.  They are particularly dangerous as they are opposite the entrance to the concrete plant with its heavy … Continue reading →

These containers on Rufford Street and Randell’s road are a sick joke.  They make the street cramped, dangerous and hemmed in.  They block the light for the flats in the Paget Centrem, there are no lights for nighttime and they … Continue reading →

The local police team has done a great job in the last four years in helping turn the neighbourhood around.  There are now six officers devoted to Caledonian Ward and the crime situation is improved, though anti social behaviour problems … Continue reading →

Not content with putting huge blue containers in really stupid places, United House have also been vanadalising street furniture.  The spot where they first put the containers, next to Bingfield Park, off Pembroke Street used to be a prime dumping … Continue reading →

Somtimes you can’t win – working with Councillors the containers that were causing a safety hazard on Bingfield Park were moved.  United House and the Council officials were charged with finding a better location for them.  But we had not … Continue reading →

The Islington Gazette reports that we shall get a new CCTV camera on the Caledonian Road at the junction with Bridgeman Road (approximate map here).  Hopefully this will tackle the street drinking and low level ASB that occurs there.  Or … Continue reading →

I reported here on the tragic death of a graffiti artist George King at Cally and Barnsbury rail station.  I was surprised when one of the dead man’s friends got in touch through the site and touchingly his now widowed … Continue reading →