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Park built for residents has been ‘taken over’ by teenagers
• AROUND Queens Crescent, Grafton and Vicars roads the park built for babies and toddlers has become the place for teenagers to hang out, smoke, take drugs, drink and graffiti.
This park was built for the residents on Vicars Road as the children in this block did not have a safe place to play.
As an 18-year-old myself I decided to better myself and stay on in school and am currently doing my second year of A-levels but find it extremely frustrating that once school hours are over and all day weekend’s teenagers will meet up scream and shout till the park is locked outside our flat. Something must be done about it!
This has now been a problem for over a period of two years, residents in Vicars Road have complained constantly.
When this problem had first arisen we were sent a letter from the pitch manager giving us a contact number to report annoyance from the playground between 6pm and 2am but the noise starts much earlier. We have babies, old people and hard workers living in these flats who cannot sleep, hear their TVs or study till the park is locked up at 9pm.
What we were told by housing mobile patrol was that they have no rights to move the teenagers on and they will hang out side the playground or outside the back entrance to our block once the playground is locked.
When the teenagers were approached by the residents in the block the teenagers verbally and physically attacked them by swearing and thrown stones and eggs.
One incident happened where a neighbour who had two young children under the age of five at the time, had stones thrown at her windows.
One window was broken which then had to be replace.
The morning after the teenagers abused the caretakers around the area who then have to clean up after them.
They have vandalised the children’s play area by putting graffiti on the slides, swings and benches which caretakers will have to take time to remove – only for the teenagers then to graffiti again.
Camden Council have made it a nightmare for us residents in Vicars Road to live a quiet life. They did not solve a problem with this park, but created one.
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