Here we go again: Hoteliers on Brunswick Terrace blaming the beach hut owners for anti social behaviour.

I understand that the hoteliers would like a nice uninterrupted sea view – but to blame the owners of the chalets is ridiculous.

If the drunks were down by the donkey site or sitting on the roundabout would they remove the donkeys and the children’s fair from the beach?

Do they blame the shop keepers for rough sleepers in their doorways, or the council for the drunks in the shelters on the sea front, or the railway for the druggies and drunks who hang about the station?

The problem is lack of policing and the lack of will to deal with the main problem. Beach huts are part and parcel of every sea side resort and indeed have been on Weymouth beach in various forms for over a 110 years.

The police haven’t got to go a find the problem, we all know who the people are and where they are.

In the evening it would be very easy to drive along in their patrol cars especially from about 9 at night from the old Pier Bandstand to sluice gardens or even just to Greenhill Gardens. If they drove along several times between 9pm and 3am it would be a huge deterrent.

If the police can’t do it there should be beach patrols for the duration of the summer 12 weeks.

It is not the job of the Jones family to police the Esplanade and do the police work for them.

I pay £2,500 a year to the council for facilities in Weymouth and policing. This year we had a 5.99% increase, one of the highest in the country.

All the people causing the problems on the seafront don’t pay a penny in council tax but those of us who do are being penalised because of their behaviour.

H Mclauhlin,
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