Littlemoor tenants welcome crackdown on nightmare neighbours

11:15am Friday 8th March 2013 in News

Littlemoor tenants welcome crackdown on nightmare neighbours Littlemoor tenants welcome crackdown on nightmare neighbours

Residents of the troubled Littlemoor estate have welcomed plans to evict their nightmare neighbours. 

At a meeting yesterday, residents were told that housing authority Synergy are taking legal action on a number of tenants.

Dozens of residents came together at a public meeting in St Francis Church on the Weymouth estate to discuss the anti-social behaviour and crime that has been plaguing the area.

It comes after a spate of arsons and car break-ins in Littlemoor, with one woman suffering serious burns in a malicious fire in a park last week.

Christine Wallis, anti-social behaviour offer for Synergy Housing, told the meeting tenants causing significant trouble will be given 48 hours notice to leave.

Today many esidents in Littlemoor welcomed the news.

Suzette Lonsdale, of Brisbane Road, said: “Synergy making evictions is good news and should force the problem out.

“Hopefully any other families coming in know what will happen to them as well and won’t cause any more trouble.

“Let’s hope it works. We will be glad to see the back of them.

“I’ve signed up for the Home Watch scheme as well, it’s been brought in other areas where I’ve lived and it makes a difference.”

However some residents are sceptical about how much difference the new measures will make.

Speaking at the meeting Tony Alee, of Bincombe Rise, said: “We have heard all this before.

“Where does Inspector Les Fry think he will succeed where others have failed.

“Other inspectors have come and said this and things got better for a few months and then they move manpower out again.

“If we signed up for Home Watch you can guarantee your car would be torched and your home would be attacked.”

Tell us what you think?

 

Are you a resident of Littlemoor? Were you at yesterday's meeting? Let us know your thoughts below.

To talk about the issues in confidence contact the Littlemoor reporter Rachael Burnett on rachael.burnett@dorsetecho.co.uk or call 01305 830982

Comments(4)

shy talk says...
12:12pm Fri 8 Mar 13

The first step in an eviction is usually written notice from your housing association. However, a housing association can ask the courts to dispense with the need to serve a notice if the reason for eviction is because the tenant have been involved in serious anti-social behaviour It is also able to apply to the courts to evict without waiting for the two-month notice period to pass.

If the tenant has not left by the time the notice expires, your housing association will usually have to apply for an order from the county court telling the tenant to leave. This is known as a possession order. Most tenants are entitled to stay in their accommodation until a possession order takes effect. Sometimes housing associations are able to get a possession order automatically. All this in forty eight hours. Or is this procedure already in place and waiting to be served on known tenants.

Ref: Shelter

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cj07589 says...
1:03pm Fri 8 Mar 13

Moving the problem on somewhere else is hardly a long term solution is it?

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niceonecyril says...
5:14pm Fri 8 Mar 13

shy talk wrote:
The first step in an eviction is usually written notice from your housing association. However, a housing association can ask the courts to dispense with the need to serve a notice if the reason for eviction is because the tenant have been involved in serious anti-social behaviour It is also able to apply to the courts to evict without waiting for the two-month notice period to pass.

If the tenant has not left by the time the notice expires, your housing association will usually have to apply for an order from the county court telling the tenant to leave. This is known as a possession order. Most tenants are entitled to stay in their accommodation until a possession order takes effect. Sometimes housing associations are able to get a possession order automatically. All this in forty eight hours. Or is this procedure already in place and waiting to be served on known tenants.

Ref: Shelter
It must already be in place, because after the recent riots two families were evicted within 24 hours, and by all accounts the evictions were lawful, so maybe Shelter don't quote the laws covering anti social behaviour.

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EtaoinShrdlu says...
12:20am Sat 9 Mar 13

Wait till the Romanians arrive along with their own mafia. You'll need more than a couple of cops then . . . After WW1 Lloyd George said he wanted to make England a land fit for heroes to live in. Now it's a land that only heroes can live in.

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