The PC meeting

[cromwell]

Not politically correct, Parish Council.

Well! Apparently we have had four drug addicts moved into the village, next door to the florists. The florists that was burgled shortly thereafter.
There is also someone in the village who was reported to the police as dealing drugs, four years ago. He still is.
A woman with alcohol issues has also been moved in; apparently she's drunk all the time and the kids are running wild.
Also a car comes into the village some nights, parks up with his headlights on where local youths sometimes assemble and stays there for about three hours. He too is dealing drugs.

Then there are a couple of mobile gangs in cars who are going around burglarising and assaulting people.

The Parish councillors at the meeting (who give up their time and don't get paid) were frustrated, some angry. Complaints are that the police don't do enough.

My view is that the problem is there are so many people committing crime it is hard to keep on top of. I wouldn't like to give the impression that this village is a hell hole, it is not. I have lived here forty years going on and never seen much trouble in all that time. But there is a lot more going on than I realised.

I said my piece, which was basically that this village is not getting a fair deal. We pay literally millions every year in council tax and are made to feel grateful if the road gets mended. Meanwhile some of the people recently relocated to this village are just low lives. They aren't locals, goodness knows where they are from. So as I say IMO we're getting the rough end of the pineapple.

At the meeting was a district councillor (who does get paid). I don't think that I am her favourite person for what I said. They get loads of money, we get smackheads - not fair. She got a bit short when I mentioned houses of multiple occupancy. these are when a premises is converted into flats / bedsits and then filled up with "vulnerable people". She was very sharp, denying that there are any. Though there are.

The suspicion is that when Covid hit Wakefield housed a lot of people with problems in hotels in the city centre. Crime there, burglary and shoplifting especially, has rocketed and business owners are complaining. So imo the council is getting them out of hotels (average cost £75 a night) and relocated in the surrounding villages. I think I'll ask the district councillor this should I attend the next meeting. I'll definitely be off the Christmas card list then!

[Suff]

Of course if you take action yourself, you are going to be charged.

I could see a scenario where a few anonymous molotov's under the dealers car would send the right message.

But you are just not allowed to do it.

[cromwell]

Indeed not. Probably just as well.

Oh, the district councillor also referred to "An unsayoury matter" which would be coming out. The public at the meeting weren't briefed about that but I already know it's because another recent import into the village set up a brothel.

Happy days, eh!

[Suff]

Indeed not. Probably just as well.

I'm sure if the sale of "anonymous" masks goes up the police will worry.....

[TheOstrich]

Exciting times in your village, Crommers!
Well done for speaking out.

I'll definitely be off the Christmas card list then!

Yep, tea and no biscuits for you, mate!

[JoM]

You did good speaking out Crommers!

We had an interesting one on Facebook last week. The local police almost daily post about arresting drug dealers. They caught one on Tesco car park last week, but this time it was a 79 year old man dealing heroin and crack, he also had counterfeit cigarettes and £700 in cash. When his home was searched more of the same was found plus a quantity of weed.

[Gal2]

Hear hear Crommers well done for speaking out!!!

We know stuff goes on in our village but as for how it’s dealt with, who can say? New houses and estates are built all the time, when I lived in our last house, literally across the road from where we are now, the view at the back of the house was all gorgeous countryside. Not now, just houses stretching as far as you can see. We’re merging into a town i think.

I rarely go down the Main Street late at night, had cause to on Tuesday but let’s just say I won’t be doing it again in a hurry!! Unsettling to say the least.

[Kaz]

I go to Brockworth (about 3 or 4 miles out of Gloucester) every Thursday night, for Pilates. It used to be countryside on the way there, behind the older houses that lined the road. Now it's brand new rabbit-hutch houses, completely blocking the view No new GP surgeries or schools to support the increase in population

There is a drug problem here, the centre of town stinks of weed, and a growing knife problem too