Getting tough on anti-social behaviour in Kingswood

By skater3 | Monday, February 22, 2010, 21:12

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The Kingswood Bus Project is being used to help tackle problems in the Southey Park area

action is being taken against

anti-social behaviour in the Southey Park area of Kingswood.

The

issue of young people causing problems every evening between 7pm and 11pm is

being tackled by the Kingswood Safer Stronger Community group following a

meeting in December.

a result a local youth has been given an Anti-Social Behaviour Order

(ASBO) with conditions not to attend specific areas in the vicinity of Southey

Park, temporary CCTV cameras have been installed at key spots in the area and

there is regular contact with local residents and businesses by police and the Safer South Gloucestershire Anti-social Behaviour Team.

Local

residents and the neighbourhood policing team have also been investigating

whether there is a need for an alley gate scheme at North Park, a road near Southey Park, to make the area safer at night.

The

Kingswood Bus Project, catering for

young people from the age of 11, is deployed to the area on Monday

evenings to give local youths a safe

educational and fun environment, and there are ongoing patrols by local

policing teams, including the use of off-road motorcycles.

Ways to improve facilities at Southey Park, which has a popular skate area, are also being investigated

including a new concrete skating half-pipe and new fencing.

The

next meeting of the Kingswood Safer Stronger

Community group will be on Thursday

February 25 at 10am at the Civic Centre in the High Street. All members of

the public are welcome to attend.

Meanwhile neighbourhood police in Hanham and

Longwell Green are offering support to parents worried about what their

children get up to on a Friday night.

They are offering a heavily discounted scheme for young people to use the facilities at

the Aspects Leisure Complex between 7 and 9pm on Fridays. Call

0845 456 7000 for more information.

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I agree that there is no excuse for kids to say they are bored - but I dont think I blame the kids - isnt it the parents role to show their kids how to look beyond video game consolesand wanton vandalism to something more positive ?

There are enough clubs and societies out there (even in Kingswood) where energies can be more constructively channelled.

Perhaps over time this site can become a 'one stop shop' for everything on offer for the youth of Kingswood so that parents and kids can see whats on offer ?

By 37th Kingswood Scouts Cadet Band at 22:23 on 23/02/10
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I find it strange that the kids say the reason why they vandalise things is because they are bored and have nothing to do. I was a kid before home pc's/psp's/Wii's etc and there were times when i was bored but I didn't go out and cause trouble, neither did my friends. So to say they are bored with what they now is just an excuse.

By king1and at 20:59 on 22/02/10
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It is good that something is being done - such a shame to see so many young people with nothing inspiring for them to do in the area ... its the same all over bristol (and probably across the UK)! Fairplay to Aspects for doing their discount scheme! More companies should follow suit !

By 37th Kingswood Scouts Cadet Band at 16:29 on 22/02/10
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That will go some way to help stop what happens at night. Why is the next meeting at 10am????? Don't they realise people work?

By king1and at 23:48 on 18/02/10
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