Tory call for urgent action on Moorefields disorder 09/05/04

Tottenham Conservatives have called for urgent action to deal with anti-social behaviour in Moorefields Road.  At a meeting of the Bruce Grove Residents' Association last Tuesday, they were shocked to hear about the high level of noise and public disorder in the road behind Bruce Grove station.

William MacDougall, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Tottenham, said:

"Labour Haringey's response is scandalous; there are things they can and should do.  Existing public order laws should be enforced and pavement drinking in the area should be banned by the Council.  The issue is not the ethnic background of the people concerned - I welcome cultural diversity - but that no group should be regularly drinking and urinating on a public pavement."  MacDougall was, until 2002, a Haringey Conservative Councillor.

According to one resident, the nuisance was going unchecked by Council officials who confessed that they were afraid to disperse the gangs of men who spent time socialising, drinking, and urinating in the street until the small hours of the morning.

Lydia Rivlin, Chairman of Tottenham Conservatives and a GLA candidate in the elections on June 10, was also at the meeting. She added, "The Council regards itself as powerless to do anything.  This is of course a nonsense.  If residents cannot rely on the Council to protect them from anti-social behaviour, then why are they paying their salaries?" 

ENDS.